Non Christians, what is the most unsettling story from the bible?

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Non Christians, what is the most unsettling story from the bible?

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  1. OkCryptographer9508 Avatar

    The story of King David and his fucked up family

  2. Beautiful-se3y-97 Avatar

    The story of Lot’s wife turning into a pillar of salt.

  3. Lurked4EverB4Joining Avatar

    If God’s obedience test to Abraham happened today, where he heard voices in his head which tell him to kill his son Isaac in a sacrifice, he would rightfully be institutionalized for schizophrenia…

  4. digitaldrummer Avatar

    Job bothers me. The destruction of everything he cares about, coupled with the confidence that he’d still praise God is chilling. Why would I ever want to believe in a god like that?

  5. Infamous_Ad8650 Avatar

    Jobs life, what a story. 

  6. savessh Avatar

    The one where the kids were harassing the dude with the bald head so he prayed to God and God sent a bear to rip all the kids apart.

  7. ___Anubis Avatar

    Lot’s daughters sleeping with him, that’s disgusting

  8. Sillinaama Avatar

    That old testament as whole. It is ultraviolent and plain evil.

  9. GSilky Avatar

    The hill of foreskins is off-putting.

  10. BrewertonFats Avatar

    Tough call, but I always give it to Job. Imagine having such absolute faith in god, only for god to allow your life to be made a living hell just so he can win a bet with the devil. I’m sorry Christians, but the devil won that bet by proving that for all man’s loyalty to god, god has no such loyalty in turn.

  11. scottredhanded Avatar

    The story of a bunch of kids who taunt and insult a bald headed man. God isn’t about this type of thing so he dispatches two bears to maul to death 42 children involved.

    https://bible.org/seriespage/elisha-and-two-bears-2-kings-223-25

  12. kudzu_lipzoid Avatar

    Lot’s 2 daughters getting him drunk and getting pregnant by him.

  13. Illustrious_Goal4906 Avatar

    When Lot offers his daughters up the crowd of the town to be raped. And then Lot is praised for his Godly obedience.

  14. Beary_Christmas Avatar

    Mass murder of the world via the Flood is pretty hard to beat.

    Then you’ve got instances where the Israelites were ordered to slaughter a neighboring tribe, all the men, all the boys, all the women who had ever known the touch of a man, spare only the virgin girls.

    Or the divine rules on the proper way to keep other humans as slaves, including how to coerce men to voluntarily consign themselves to lifelong slavery or lose their wife and children.

  15. Chairchucker Avatar

    I’m a Christian. Kinda. Agnostic?

    Anyway, gonna go with the story in Judges 19, where a Levite goes to Gibeah with his concubine, and while he’s staying at some dude’s place overnight, a crowd of men gather outside and demand they be given the Levite so they can rape him. So that they do not ‘do this wicked thing’, the Levite and his host push his concubine out the door overnight and she is raped to death. Then the Levite cuts his concubine into 12 portions and sends each portion to one of the 12 tribes, (except not the tribe of Benjamin I think, IDK exactly how this bit worked, I think the tribe of Joseph was split into Ephraim and Manasseh so it still shakes out to 12) so that they know what a fucked up thing the men of Gibeah did. So the other tribes surround Gibeah, which is of the tribe of Benjamin, and smite the hell out of them.

  16. Curious_Cloud_1131 Avatar

    It just casually mentions giants exist

  17. kudzu_lipzoid Avatar

    God killing everyone on earth except one boat full of people and animals…..and the ensuing incest.

  18. badwolf1013 Avatar

    Abraham. Job. But the flooding of the ENTIRE EARTH and the drowning of every, man, woman, and CHILD save for one family has got to be the most fucked up story that routinely makes it into kids’ coloring books.

  19. Gcseh Avatar

    the story of original sin. everything about it is disturbing. God knew they would eat the apple, then punishes them and all of mankind for it. If eating the apple is what allowed Eve to tell between good and evil than she had no understanding that what she was doing was wrong. still punished.

    but as others have said, basically any part of the bible when examined, in almost any modern translation is horrible. Even some of the original meanings were bad however each translation has made it worse.

  20. Ouija429 Avatar

    Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is kinda wild.

  21. LusciousEmilia-Rose Avatar

    Ehud tried to kill the king of Moab, Eglon, by stabbing him with a sword, but Eglon was so fat that his fat closed over the entire sword, including the hilt. (Judges 3:12-25)

  22. blue-white-dragon2 Avatar

    Lots daughters get their father drunk after their mother was turned into a pillar of salt and commit incest so they can bare sons to inherit his property when he dies only sons inherit the father’s stuff during that time

  23. JellyBeans5050 Avatar

    Not being aware of many bible stories..the one that does come to mind is “The Plagues of Egypt” While demonstrating God’s power, the plagues inflict terrible suffering and death upon the Egyptians, including the death of all the firstborn sons…. And for what? Just to demonstrate his power… Yikes…

  24. Aggravating-Day-2864 Avatar

    When I found out the messiah was called Brian….

  25. Arcades_Samnoth Avatar

    Job for me, God has a competition with the devil to prove a guy has “true” faith by slaughtering his family and farm? To me, the devil won that argument because he got god to do it – he’s god, he doesn’t have to prove anything

  26. jzzanthapuss Avatar

    There was Adam and there was Eve. They had two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain killed Abel. Abel was given a mark so that everyone in the nearby city (??) would know him as a murderer (even though this was the first murder) and then somehow all other humans descended from Adam and Eve…what??!

  27. MacIomhair Avatar

    This dude decides to create life and gives them intelligence and curiosity but forbids them from eating an apple in case they become like him. So a talking snake convinces them to eat the apple. He is so angry that he makes them die, but not yet, in about 900 years. Anyway, he then drowns every living being on the planet except for a few pairs of magic kangaroos who hop all the way from Australia to Jerusalem and back to narrow the gene pool. Then he decides the only way to protect the people of earth from his own anger at eating an apple is to sacrifice himself on a tree to himself and to return in a couple of days knowing, omniscient being that he is, that the interpretations of this story will lead to centuries of genocide and war and oppression without a shred of proof any of it is true. That bit is unsettling. It means we are at the whim of a lunatic genocidal maniac with mood swings. Unless, of course, it’s all BS.

  28. BOSZ83 Avatar

    God destroys Job’s life to prove to Satan that Job is his bitch. It’s incredibly petty.

  29. kurtisbmusic Avatar

    The one where God wants to test people’s faith so he lets Satan run for President to see if they vote for him and they do.

  30. Kaje26 Avatar

    Oh, I know exactly how to answer that.

    ““And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord: “If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.” Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into his hands. He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon. When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter. When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, “Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me down and I am devastated. I have made a vow to the Lord that I cannot break.””
    ‭‭Judges‬ ‭11‬:‭30‬-‭35‬ ‭NIV‬

    Tl;dr A general made a vow to God to sacrifice as a burnt offering whatever came out of his door first to greet him when he returns triumphant from battle. It was his daughter.

  31. RyzenRaider Avatar

    Not a story, but unsettling conclusions about the 10 commandments.

    Don’t lie. Well fuck me, “Yeah I’m ok” is sinful when someone asks how my day is, but I don’t want to waste time or bother them with my problems.

    Don’t steal. Good in principle (as is a rule to not lie), but I’m not gonna criticize someone who has to steal essentials to live. As far as having space for 10 absolute rules, this feels like filler.

    Don’t cheat on your spouse, and don’t fantasize about other people’s spouses…. Two commandments. Did this really need to be two? 20% of the list is just about marital fidelity?

    Did they get to 10, and realize they didn’t have any room left, and just dropped the others in the suggestion box? Such as:

    1. Thou shalt not have slaves.
    2. Thou shalt not rape.
    3. Thou shalt not traffic children (or people in general).
    4. Thou shalt not torture.

    I think these are much more important inexcusable rules than “don’t lie”, “don’t steal”, and “don’t think about your neighbor’s wife”.

  32. yourlittlebirdie Avatar

    The actual handmaid’s tale, the story of Bilhah, is pretty awful. She’s Leah’s slave who is given to Leah’s husband to rape and impregnate, and then Leah takes Bilhah’s babies from her and claims them as her own. And we’re supposed to see this as admirable.

  33. WandAnd-a-Rabbit Avatar

    All the stuff telling women to be silent, sleep with their fathers or brothers, and not to look for agency or autonomy lest they be condemned to eternal hellfire. Evil manipulative shit. I feel for the Christian women who don’t want to live like that but are scared paralyzed of what they perceive as the only alternative.

  34. Armydillo101 Avatar

    The story of Lot

    Two angels are threatened to be raped, so instead, he lets his daughters be raped in their place.

    He then leaves the town, and he and his family presumedly are the only ones spared from god’s wrath. Then his wife is turned into salt for glancing back at the city.

    Then Lot and his daughters settle down somewhere. When he gets drunk, his daughters rape him, and get pregnant. Their descendants then go on to become the nations of Amon and Moab.

    Two people groups from the bible are the result of two daughters raping their father, a father who also offered them up to be raped in place of two strangers he had just met. Instead of punishing any of these three, god punishes the wife who looked back at the city he was destroying.

    Just… why?

  35. DocSpit Avatar

    The ten plagues.

    Pharaoh is ready to let the slaves go after, like, plague number three or something. But God forcibly changes Pharaoh’s mind and compels him to keep the Jews in Egypt time and time again. Every evening Pharaoh has the thought of: “This shit is freaking me out, I gotta get these slaves and their freaky god out of here”, and God immediately follows it up by compelling Pharaoh to stick it out.

    Ostensibly because it’s not enough for Pharaoh to just do what God wants; God wants to really hammer home the point that: He‘s the only god worth worshipping and the Egyptians chose wrong.

    And He will force you to watch your children die in front of you to make that point. You don’t get to back out early. No matter how much you want to. God will mind-f*ck you into sticking with His sick game.

    It’s honestly some real Saw shit in hindsight…

  36. Matstele Avatar

    After king David sleeps with Bathsheba and kills her husband, God punishes him by having his own son enact a coup and rape all of David’s wives on the palace roof for the the whole city to see

  37. Shevek99 Avatar

    To put a less known story in 1 Samuel 15 God orders Saul to destroy the Amalekites

    Samuel said to Saul, “I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the Lord. This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

    And when Saul didn’t kill everything (he spares the cattle, not the children), he is stripped of his title as King.

  38. paracoon Avatar

    As a teenage Jew in Hebrew school, it was Exodus that turned me off the whole thing. Phaoroh at numerous points was like, ok yes your god makes some good and dangerous arguments, please go. And god HARDENS HIS HEART and makes him change his mind. Cue teenage me thinking man, god is a PRICK. Like what’s his game here? He got what he wanted but no, let’s have more suffering on both sides. Nope, I’m out.

  39. West-Chard3972 Avatar

    The Adam and Eve/Fall of Man myth is really disturbing to me. The premise that all of humanity’s suffering stems from learning is just sick. As soon as they learn what good and evil are (pursuit of knowledge) they are doomed for all eternity.

    The lesson is that you should live in ignorant bliss and learning about the real world is your downfall.

    A better answer to the question is 100% of the Old Testament is unsettling. The New Testament has some very nice morality in it.

    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

    Mahatma Gandhi

  40. Themeloncalling Avatar

    King Saul demands a bag of foreign dicks for his daughter in marriage. David proceeds to kill 200 men, 100 for the foreskins, and presumably another 100 for shits and giggles. Some poor bastard in King Saul’s court is now tasked with counting out 100 bloody, dick cheese filled foreskins that had been marinating in a sack across the desert heat for days. This act of bonus genocide won over the princesses heart. King Saul, now given a bag of dicks and less one daughter, realizes God supports David and proceeds to hate on his new son-in-law for life – 1 Samuel 18:25-29.

  41. Brightstarr Avatar

    Matthew 2:16-18 When King Harrod heard that the wise men tricked him and did not return to tell him where the Christ child was born, he sent his men to the city and region of Bethlehem and killed ALL OF THE BOY BABIES AGES TWO AND YOUNGER. Imagine what that looked like. That’s part of the Christmas story.

  42. OpenScore Avatar

    Basically everything that happened in the bible was centered around middle east, with some involvement from Egypt.

    No wonder that place is really fucked up even today.

  43. thatguysjumpercables Avatar

    Here’s a list I keep handy for questions like these:

    Priests inducing an abortion with a special potion, but it only works if she cheated (Numbers 5:11-31)

    A protagonist offering his daughters to a crowd of rapists (Genesis 19:5)

    An explanation of the proper procedure for selling your own daughter into slavery (Exodus 21:7-11)

    A woman mutilating her son’s genitals with a rock to make a point (Exodus 4:25)

    Karen gets a hold of the pen and she tells you how she really feels about your kids (Psalm 137:9)

    A king demanding a suitor for his daughter provide the foreskins of 100 men, which the suitor chooses to double down on for the lulz or something (1 Samuel 18:20-30)

    Solomon slipping a bunch of smut into his writings, talking about letting his lover come into his garden and shit (Song of Solomon 1:13, 4:16, 5:4, 7:3, 7:7, 8:10)

    More Solomon talking about breasts (Proverbs 5:19)

    Ezekiel bitching about women making dildos out of gold (Ezekiel 16:17)

    Moses declaring if two men are fighting and one of their wives rolls up and grabs the other guy’s dick she needs her hand cut off, which apparently was happening so often it needed a rule (Deuteronomy 25:11-12)

    Samson banging a hooker (Judges 16:1)

    God killing a dude for pulling out because he didn’t want to knock up his widowed sister (Genesis 38:9-10)

    Judah neglecting the same widowed daughter in law so hard she pretended to be a hooker and let him knock her up (Genesis 38:15-18)

    Reuben banging one of his dad’s side chicks (Genesis 35:22)

    Lot’s daughters getting him drunk and raping him (Genesis 19:33-36)

    Judah banging a rando (Genesis 38:2)

    Amnon raping his brother’s sister Tamar (2 Samuel 13:11-14)

    Isaiah talking about raping women and beating children to death (Isaiah 13:16)

    David banging a rando and then orchestrating her husband’s death so he could marry her (2 Samuel 12:2-27)

    David’s son Absalom banging all his bitches on the roof of his dad’s house in clear view of everyone to spite his dad (2 Samuel 16:21-22)

    Elisha, fresh off receiving a double-portion of Elijah’s spirit, gets so butthurt at children talking shit about his baldness he casts Summon Monster on them and they get eaten by bears (2 Kings 2:23-24)

    Ezekiel describing one woman’s sex life as whoring after donkey-sized dicks (Ezekiel 23:18-21)

    And the most fucked up one, a protagonist offering his concubine to be gang raped, who later dies from the abuse, is cut into 12 pieces and mailed with a letter to each of the 12 Tribes of Israel. (Judges 19)

    And a bonus: WITCHCRAFT (1 Samuel 28:2-25)