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work with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them cross over to the
brick works. So he did with all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David
and all the people returned to Jerusalem." We also read in 1 Chronicles 20/3, "And
he brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work with saws,
with iron picks, and with axes. So David did to all the cities of the people of
Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem." It makes one
wonder how the world can ever live in peace when such inhumane acts of genocide are
called upon in a so-called Holy Book and are ascribed to God and His prophets.
[6] Even though the story of the adulterous woman (John 8/3-11), which many priests
are never weary of repeating, on the face of it calls to mercy it is, in fact, an invitation to
encourage adultery. Not only is it fabricated, as it does not exist in the oldest manuscripts
of the Bible, but it also represents a type of racial discrimination against women, for it
mentions that it was only the adulterous woman who was tried and not the man with
whom she was caught in the act. This is based on a strange assumption that victimizes
women to the exclusion of men and rules that their hands should be cut off even if a
woman comes to rescue her husband from his assailant by reaching out and seizing the
assailant by his private parts, as in Deuteronomy 11/25. Despite all this, Islam is severely
criticized for ruling that the thief's hand can only be cut off if a number of conditions are
met.
[7] In Judges 21/20, for instance, we read, "And see, and, behold, if the daughters
of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come you out of the vineyards,
and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land
of Benjamin." We also read in Judges 19/25-29, "But the men would not hearken
to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and
they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the
day began to dawn, they let her go. Then came the woman in the dawning of
the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till
it was light. And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the
house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was
fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.
And he said unto her, up, and let us be going. But there was no answer. Then
the man took her up upon a donkey, and the man rose up, and got himself unto
his place. And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold
on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces,