The Book Your Church Doesnt Want You to Read

Bible Morality
The Book
Who was Christ? He is called the "divine teacher." Yes,­
He led
The crowd, he taught them justice, truth, and peace,
In semblance; but he lit within their souls
The quenchless flames of zeal, and blessed the sword
He brought on earth to satiate with the blood
Of truth and freedom his malignant soul.
Immoral Teachings Of The Bible
-Shelley
In the modern and stricter sense of the term, morality is scarcely
taught in the Bible. Neither moral, morals, and morality, nor their
equivalents, ethical and ethics, are to be found in the book. T. B.
Wakeman, president of the Liberal University of Oregon, a life-long
student of sociology and ethics, says:
The word 'moral' does not occur in the Bible, nor even the
idea. Hunting for morals in the Bible is like trying to find human
remains in the oldest geologic strata- in the eozoon, for instance.
Morals had not then been born.
I refuse to accept the Bible as a moral guide because it sanctions
nearly every vice and crime. Here is the long list of wrongs which it
authorizes and defends:
• Lying and deception • Cheating
• Theft and robbery
• Wars of conquest
• Cannibalism
• Slavery
• Adultery and prostitution
• Intemperance
• Ignorance
• Unkindness to children
• Tyranny
• Murder
• Human sacrifices
• Witchcraft
• Polygamy
• Obscenity
• Vagrance
• Injustice to woman
• Cruelty to animals
• Intolerance and persecution
The Bible is, for the most part, the crude literature of a people who
lived 2,000 years, and more, ago. Certain principles of right and
wrong they recognized, but the finer principles of morality were
unknown to them. They were an ignorant people. An ignorant
people is generally a religious people, and a religious people nearly
always an immoral people. They believed that they were God's
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