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Top 10 Blood Baths of the Bible or Over a Billion Reasons Not to be a Christian

10. GOD SLAUGHTERS OVER 50,000 PEOPLE OF BETHSHEMESH
And [the LORD] smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter. (1 S 6:19)

9. GOD SLAUGHTERS 70,000 ISRAELITES
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. (2 S 24:15)

8. GOD LEADS GIDEON IN SLAUGHTER OF 120,000 MIDIANITES
...the LORD said unto [Gideon], ...I have delivered [the Midianites] into thine hand. ...and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow...And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.... there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword. (Jg 7:9, 22-25, 8:10)

7. GOD LEADS SLAUGHTER OF 120,000 JUDEANS
Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.... And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters... (2 Ch 28:5-8)

6. GOD’S ANGEL SLAUGHTERS 185,000 ASSYRIANS
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. (2 K 19:35)

5. GOD LEADS SLAUGHTER OF 500,000 ISRAELITES
...and they cried unto the LORD, and ...it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand. And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers. (2 Ch 13:14-18)

4. GOD LEADS MOSES IN SLAUGHTER OF COUNTLESS MIDIANITES
And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males....And ...took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones...And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?...Now therefore kill every male among the little ones (children), and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him....But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. (Nu 31:7-18)

3. GOD SLAUGHTERS COUNTLESS EGYPTIANS
The LORD turned streams to blood and killed the Egyptians firstborn: And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; And smote all the firstborn in Egypt... (Ps 78:44-51)

2. GOD SLAUGHTERS EVERY THING THAT BREATHS ON EARTH
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air....And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. (Gn 6:7, 7:23)

1. JESUS TO BRING BLOOD BATH OF ALL BLOOD BATHS
And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men (Would mean a slaughter of over 2 Billion people if Jesus returned today). And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand...and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. (Rev 9:15-18)

Thankfully, these accounts are myths. The God of the bible is not a supernatural being but a product of the imagination of violent men. The Book of Exodus describes this character as a war Lord: “The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name” (Ex 15:3). Such “a man of war” will always provide any nation that calls on him—that glorifies him—divine justification for violence on a massive scale. There is no hope for peace as long as “a man of war” is worshipped which makes all the Abrahamic religions enemies of humanity.