Since Christians don’t bother to read the Bible carefully, they’ve bought the hype that “God is love.” In fact, the Bible is Exhibit A in showing that God’s supposed love is eclipsed by wrath. There’s too much nasty, vengeful theology in the thousand pages of Christian scripture.  

Reading the Bible cover-to-cover can be quite a shock: God’s own conduct repeatedly falls far below high moral standards, and careful readers are startled by the many negatives about Jesus on full view in the gospels. 

Any religion whose god commits targeted murder of babies and toddlers should close up shop and go out of business. Yes, it's in the Bible; see Exodus 12:29-30 for details.

Pastors and priests have always preached faith as a supreme virtue, precisely because there is no reliable, verifiable evidence for their doctrines. So it’s no wonder that even pastors and priests cannot agree on which doctrines are true: because of the lack of evidence.

Oh the irony: everything necessary to show that Christianity is false is right there in the gospels; what a mistake to publish them together. All the more reason to scrutinize them carefully.

If we heard these words of Jesus yelled by a street preacher today, we’d cross to the other side, muttering, “What a nut job!” It’s not okay that Jesus was big on fire as punishment. 

The colossal ego of Jesus in John’s gospel is hard to realize—if you’ve been raised to believe that Jesus is part of God. But John is guilty of theological excess; he imagined an arrogant, unappealing, fantasy Jesus.

John's gospel takes the prize for giving us the most bad Jesus quotes. Here are a couple from chapter 9 (Jesus cures a blind man) and chapter 11 (the raising of Lazarus).

Our lives are enriched by great art, literature, and music; we appreciate athletic excellence. But such things, so prized by humans, are an abomination in the sight of God. How can that be? Yet another thing we wish Jesus hadn’t said. 

Chances are you’ve never heard your priest or preacher say, “Think hard about this doctrine and see if you can figure out its flaws.” No surprise: Neither Jesus nor Paul put a high premium on thinking.