For your reading :
Numbers 31: (after his army took captives after committing God ordered genocide, Moses ordered:)
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.Exodus 12: 29 And
it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in
the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne
unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.1st Samuel 15: 3 Now
go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare
them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and
sheep, camel and ass.Isiah 13: 16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their
bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no
pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.Deuteronomy 2:
33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
34 And
we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and
the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain
The Bible tells us, God not only condones, but often orders, the killing of innocent women and children, ‘infants and sucklings.’
In fact, the Psalmist celebrates it :
Psalms 137: 8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
So, please, stop using the bible to justify your ‘protect all babies’ cover story.
Other interesting verses…
Genesis 2:
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 6:
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. (an example both of ‘breath of life’ and God killing innocent babies and animals.)Ecclesiastes 3:
19 For
that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing
befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all
one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Habakkuk 2: 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
The breath is what the bible considers life. Not fertilization.
Numbers 3: 14 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
15 Number
the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their
families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Leviticus 27:
6 And if it be
from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be
of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
The bible – God – doesn’t even count a baby until it has survived a full month. (also, the Bible values males more than females – by two shekels!)
Exodus 21: 22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her,
and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as
the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
In the bible, God says the punishment for causing an abortion is a fine. Killing the woman too is punishable by death.
Deuteronomy 22: 5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. 12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. 22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. 25 But
if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her,
and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die
Exodus 21: 17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Of course, if you insist upon following the bible, women are not to wear jeans nor men wear silk blouses or cross-dress in any fashion. You are sinning if you are wearing a poly-cotton blend, cross-dressing or not. If you want to follow the Bible, you must punish adultery and rape with the death penalty. If your child says, “Damn you!” or “I wish you were dead!” or maybe even, “I hate you!” then you have to kill them. The Bible says so.
I don’t think many judges or legislators will go for any of those actual Biblical laws. So, please, be so kind as to keep your imaginary biblical dictates out of our legal system too.