the bible is not a historical record of anything. however, it frames the world in terms of god's rules and laws, etc etc etc'
the killing of witches or sorcerers is really there, along with lots of other terrible rules. that doesn't mean we can read it in terms of historical practices, most of which is lost to the mist of time. by the time we enter into a world with written accounts, what becomes rabbincal judaism, the old laws are often reinterpreted and not carried out, like stoning a son who disobeys his parents,
ken
kenneth harrow
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dept of english
michigan state university
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From: 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2022 6:36 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Atrocities/war crimes condoned in the Bible
Have you noticed that there is no mass killing of witches in the Bible? The witch craze of the dark ages took an estimated 9 million lives, mostly women, who were killed in the name of the Father, and of the Son, according to Mary Daly in Gyn/Ecology.
The Nazis also tried to use religion to rationalize their mass killings of millions in the struggle over which European bourgeois nations would have the largest colonies in Africa. Soyinka, in Of Africa, argues that African religiosity is a better model for humanity because of the absence of religious wars traditionally.
I will destroy your witchcraft and you will no longer cast spells.
I just heard that one of my cousins was lynched in the village this Christmas because her husband who lives in Europe accused her of being the one who caused him to avoid returning home, and who killed one of their children died; her daughter can't find a husband because of her medicine pot. The villagers gathered, paraded her and stoned her to death for allegedly having a list of the names of dead people that she allegedly killed with witchrcaft (could be a list of people she gave gifts to their families to support funeral expenses as is frequently done with the expectation that the gifts would be returned in times of need).
V.C. Uchendu used to teach us in Calabar that the Igbo believed in Chi to protect them against witches while their neighbors believed more in witch hunting and killing. Does the invention or intrusion of monarchical traditions among the radically republican Igbo help to explain the emergence of hysteria about witchcraft or is the witchcraze more the fault of fundamentalist Christendom and Nollywood narratives?
Biko
On Thursday, 13 January 2022, 13:06:31 GMT-5, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:
"could i know what motivated your interest in this at this time?", asks Gatekeeper Adepoju. He wants to know. If it's a healthy curiosity maybe we should oblige him by reminding him that for starters, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has described Himself as "a Mighty Warrior"
You Oluwatoyin Adepoju, master of hermeneutics, so you think it's fair game to quote passages from the Holy Quran beseeching the Faithful to slaughter the infidels, and that the historic mass slaughter and dispossession of e.g. Palestinians in this century and the last century in the tragic event referred to as the Nakba, is to be understood allegorically or read symbolically. Is that the way you understand the Book of Joshua ? Old man Noah and the Flood? All the Battles recorded in the Bible, I mean the battles you have read about in the Hebrew Bible . The destruction of the first and second Temple? The Crucifixion of Jesus? The Holocaust? The oncoming thermonuclear Armageddon?
On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 05:24:23 UTC+1 ovdepoju wrote:
thanks Gloria.
did you compile this?
could i know what motivated your interest in this at this time?
toyin
| Chapter | Killing Event | Scriptural
Reference | Biblical
number | Estimate |
| 1 |
The Flood of Noah | Gen
7:23 | – |
|
| 2 |
Abraham's war to rescue Lot | Gen
14:17-19 | – | 1000 |
| 3 |
Sodom and Gomorrah | Gen
19:24 | – | 2,000 |
| 4 |
Lot's wife | Gen
19:26 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 |
Er for being wicked in the sight of the Lord | Gen
38:7 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 |
Onan for spilling his seed | Gen
38:10 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 |
God's seven year, world-wide famine | Gen
41:25-54 | – | 70,000 |
| 8 |
The seventh plague of Egypt: Hail | Ex
9:25 | – | 300,000 |
| 9 |
God killed all first born Egyptian children | Ex
12:29-30 | – | 500,000 |
| 10 |
God drowned the Egyptian army | Ex
14:8-26 | 600 | 5,000 |
| 11 |
Amalekites | Ex
17:13 | – | 1,000 |
| 12 |
Who is on the Lord's side? | Ex
32:27-28 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
| 13 |
God plagued the people because of Aaron's calf | Ex
32:35 | – | 1,000 |
| 14 |
God burns Aaron's sons to death | Lev
10:1-3 | 2 | 2 |
| 15 |
A blasphemer is stoned to death | Lev
24:10-23 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 |
God burned people to death for complaining | Num
11:1 | – | 100 |
| 17 |
God plagued the people for complaining about the
food | Num
11:33 | – | 10,000 |
| 18 |
Ten scouts are killed for their honest report | Num
14:35-36 | 10 | 10 |
| 19 |
A man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day | Num
15:32-35 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 |
The opposing party is buried alive (with their
families) | Num
16:27 | 3 | 9 |
| 21 |
250 burned to death for burning incense | Num
16:35 | 250 | 250 |
| 22 |
For complaining about God's killings | Num
16:49 | 14,700 | 14,700 |
| 23 |
The massacre of the Aradites | Num
21:1-3 | – | 3,000 |
| 24 |
God sent snakes to bite people for complaining | Num
21:6 | – | 100 |
| 25 |
Phinehas' double murder: A killing to end God's
killings | Num
25:1-11 | 24,002 | 24,002 |
| 26 |
The Midianite massacre: Have you saved the women
alive? | Num
31:1-35 | 6 | 200,000 |
| 27 |
God slowly kills the Israelite army | Dt
2:14-16 | – | 500,000 |
| 28 |
God the giant killer | Dt
2:21-22 | – | 5,000 |
| 29 |
God hardens King Sihon's heart so he can kill him and
all his people | Dt
2:33-34 | 1 | 5,000 |
| 30 |
Og and the men, women, and children of 60 cites | Dt
3:3-6 | 1 | 60,000 |
| 31 |
The Jericho Massacre | Jos
6:21 | – | 1,000 |
| 32 |
Achan and his family are stoned and burned to death | Jos
7:10-12, 24-26 | 1 | 5 |
| 33 |
The Ai massacre | Jos
8:1-25 | 12,000 | 12,000 |
| 34 |
God stops the sun so Joshua can kill in the
daylight | Jos
10:10-11 | – | 5,000 |
| 35 |
Five kings killed and hung on trees | Jos
10:26 | 5 | 10,000 |
| 36 |
Joshua utterly destroys all that breathes as God
commanded | Jos
10:28-42 | 7 | 7,000 |
| 37 |
Jabin, Jobab, and all the people of 20 cities | Jos
11:8-12 | 2 | 20,000 |
| 38 |
The Anakim: More giant killing | Jos
11:20-21 | – | 5,000 |
| 39 |
The Lord delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites | Jg
1:4 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| 40 |
The Jerusalem Massacre | Jg
1:8 | – | 1,000 |
| 41 |
Five massacres, a wedding, and some God-proof iron
chariots | Jg
1:9-25 | – | 5,000 |
| 42 |
The Lord delivered Chushanrishathaim | Jg
3:7-10 | 1 | 1,000 |
| 43 |
Ehud delivers a message from God | Jg
3:15-22 | 1 | 1 |
| 44 |
God delivers 10,000 lusty Moabites | Jg
3:28-29 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| 45 |
Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad | Jg
3.31 | 600 | 600 |
| 46 |
Barak and God massacre the Canaanites | Jg
4:15-16 | – | 1,000 |
| 47 |
Jael pounds a tent stake through a sleeping man's
skull | Jg
4:18-22 | 1 | 1 |
| 48 |
Gideon's story: The Lord set every man's sword against
his fellow | Jg
7:22 | 120,000 | 120,000 |
| 49 |
A city is massacred and 1000 burn to death because of
God's evil spirit | Jg
9:23-57 | 1,001 | 2,000 |
| 50 |
The Ammonite Massacre | Jg
11:32-33 | – | 20,000 |
| 51 |
Jephthah's Daughter | Jg
11:39 | 1 | 1 |
| 52 |
42,000 killed for failing the "shibboleth" test | Jg
12.4-7, Heb
11.32 | 42,000 | 42,000 |
| 53 |
Samson murders 30 men for their clothes | Jg
14:19 | 30 | 30 |
| 54 |
Samson kills 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass | Jg
15:14-15 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 55 |
Samson kills 3000 in a suicide terrorist attack | Jg
16:27-30 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
| 56 |
A holy civil war (called by rotting concubine body part
messages) | Jg
20:35-37 | 65,100 | 65,100 |
| 57 |
The End of Judges: Two genocides and 200 stolen
virgins | Jg
21.10-14 | – | 4,000 |
| 58 |
God kills Eli's sons along with 34,000 Israelite
soldiers | 1Sam
2:25, 1Sam
4:11 | 34,002 | 34,002 |
| 59 |
God smote them with hemorrhoids in their secret
parts | 1Sam
5:1-12 | – | 3,000 |
| 60 |
God killed 50,070 for looking into the ark of the
Lord | 1Sam
6:19 | 50,070 | 50,070 |
| 61 |
The Lord thundered great thunder upon the
Philistines | 1Sam
7:10-11 | – | 1,000 |
| 62 |
Another Ammonite Massacre (and another God-inspired
body-part message) | 1Sam
11:6-13 | – | 1,000 |
| 63 |
Jonathan's very fist slaughter (not counting the one
before) | 1Sam
14:12-14 | 20 | 20 |
| 64 |
God forces the Philistines to kill each other | 1Sam
14:20 | – | 1,000 |
| 65 |
The Amalekite genocide | 1Sam
15:2-3 | – | 10,000 |
| 66 |
Samuel hacks Agag to death before the Lord | 1Sam
15:32-33 | 1 | 1 |
| 67 |
David or Elhanan killed Goliath | 1Sam
17.51, 2Sam
21.19 | 1 | 1 |
| 68 |
David killed 200 Philistines for their foreskins (to
buy his first wife) | 1Sam
18.27 | 200 | 200 |
| 69 |
The Lord said to David, Go and smite the
Philistines | 1Sam
23:2-5 | – | 10,000 |
| 70 |
God killed Nabal (and David got his wife and other
stuff) | 1Sam
25:38 | 1 | 1 |
| 71 |
David committed genocides for the Philistines | 1Sam
27.8-11 | – | 60,000 |
| 72 |
David spends the day killing Amalekites | 1Sam
30:17 | – | 1,000 |
| 73 |
God kills Saul, his sons, and his men because Saul
didn't kill all the Amalekites | 1Sam
31:2, 1Chr
10:6 | 4 | 100 |
| 74 |
David killed the messenger | 2Sam
1.15 | 1 | 1 |
| 75 |
David killed Rechab and Baanah, cut off their hands and
feet, and hung up their dead bodies | 2Sam
4.12 | 2 | 2 |
| 76 |
God helps David smite Philistines from the front and
the rear | 2Sam
5:19-25 | – | 2,000 |
| 77 |
God killed Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from
falling | 2Sam
6:6-7, 1Chr
13:9-10 | 1 | 1 |
| 78 |
David killed 2/3 Moabite POWs and enslaved the rest | 2Sam
8.2 | – | 667 |
| 79 |
The Lord gave David victory wherever he went | 2Sam
8.5, 10.18 | 65,850 | 66,850 |
| 80 |
David killed every male in Edom | 2Sam
8.13, 1Kg
11.15-16, 1Chr
18.12, Psalm
60:1 | 15,000 | 65,000 |
| 81 |
Thus did David unto all the children of Ammon | 2Sam
11.1, 1Chr
20.1 | – | 1,000 |
| 82 |
God slowly kills a baby | 2Sam
12:14-18 | 1 | 1 |
| 83 |
Famine and human sacrfice: Seven sons of Saul are hung
up before the Lord | 2Sam
21:1-9 | 7 | 3,000 |
| 84 |
David's mighty men and their amazing killings | 2Sam
23, 1Chr
11 | 1,403 | 3,400 |
| |
| 85 |
A couple hundred thousand die because David had a
census | 2Sam
24:15, 1Chr
21:14 | 70,000 | 200,000 |
| 86 |
Solomon carried out the deathbed wish of David by
having Joab and Shimei murdered | 1Kg
2:29-34, 2:44-46 | 2 | 2 |
| 87 |
A tale of two prophets | 1Kg
13:11-24 | 1 | 1 |
| 88 |
Jeroboam's son: God kills another child | 1Kg
14:17 | 1 | 1 |
| 89 |
Jeroboam's family | 1Kg
15:29 | – | 10 |
| 90 |
Baasha's family and friends | 1Kg
16:11-12 | – | 20 |
| 91 |
Zimri burns to death | 1Kg
16.18-19 | 1 | 1 |
| 92 |
The drought of Elijah | 1Kg
17.1, Lk
4.25, James
5.17-18 | – | 3,000 |
| 93 |
Elijah kills 450 religious leaders in a prayer
contest | 1Kg
18.22-40 | 450 | 450 |
| 94 |
The first God-assisted slaughter of the Syrians | 1Kg
20:20-21 | – | 10,000 |
| 95 |
God killed 100,000 Syrians for calling him a god of the
hills | 1Kg
20:28-29 | 100,000 | 100,000 |
| 96 |
God killed 27,000 Syrians by making a wall fall on
them | 1Kg
20:30 | 27,000 | 27,000 |
| 97 |
God sent a lion to kill a man for not smiting a
prophet | 1Kg
20:35-36 | 1 | 1 |
| 98 |
God kills Ahab for not killing a captured king | 1Kg
20:42, 22:35 | 1 | 1 |
| 99 |
God burned to death 102 men for asking Elijah to come
down from his hill | 2Kg
1:10-12 | 102 | 102 |
| 100 |
God killed King Ahaziah for asking the wrong God | 2Kg
1:16-17; 2Chr
22:7-9 | 1 | 1 |
| 101 |
God sent two bears to rip apart 42 boys for making fun
of a prophet's bald head | 2Kg
2:23-24 | 42 | 42 |
| 102 |
The Lord delivered the Moabites | 2Kg
3:18-25 | – | 5,000 |
| 103 |
A skeptic is trampled to death | 2Kg
7.2-20 | 1 | 1 |
| 104 |
Another seven year famine | 2Kg
8:1 | – | 7,000 |
| 105 |
Jehoram of Israel | 2Kg
9:24 | 1 | 1 |
| 106 |
Jezebel | 2Kg
9:33-37 | 1 | 1 |
| 107 |
Ahab's sons: Seventy heads in two heaps | 2Kg
10:6-10 | 70 | 70 |
| 108 |
Ahab's hometown family, friends, and priests | 2Kg
10:11 | – | 20 |
| 109 |
Jehu killed Ahaziah's family | 2Kg
10.12-13, 2Chr
22.7-9 | 42 | 42 |
| 110 |
Jehu and his partner kill the rest of Ahab's family | 2Kg
10:17 | – | 20 |
| 111 |
Jehu assembles the followers of Baal and then
slaughters them all | 2Kg
10.18-25 | – | 1,000 |
| 112 |
Mattan the priest of Baal and Queen Athaliah | 2Kg
11.17-20 | 2 | 2 |
| 113 |
God sends lions to eat those that don't fear him
enough | 2Kg
17:25-26 | – | 10 |
| 114 |
An angel killed 185,000 sleeping soldiers | 2Kg
19:34, Is
37:36 | 185,000 | 185,000 |
| 115 |
God caused Sennacherib to be killed by his sons | 2Kg
19:37 | 1 | 1 |
| 116 |
Josiah killed all the priests of the high places | 2Kg
23.20 | – | 100 |
| 117 |
Another holy war | 1Chr
5:18-22 | – | 50,000 |
| 118 |
God killed a half million Israelite soldiers | 2Chr
13:17-18 | 500,000 | 500,000 |
| 119 |
Jeroboam | 2Chr
13:20 | 1 | 1 |
| 120 |
God killed a million Ethiopians | 2Chr
14:9-14 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| 121 |
Friendly Fire: God forced "a great multitude" to kill
each other | 2Chr
20:22-25 | – | 30,000 |
| 122 |
God made Jehoram's bowels fall out | 2Chr
21:14-19 | 1 | 1 |
| 123 |
God killed Jehoram's sons | 2Chr
22:1 | – | 3 |
| 124 |
Ahaziah (of Judah) | 2Chr
22.7-9 | 1 | 1 |
| 125 |
Joash, the princes, and army of Judah | 2Chr
24:20-25 | 1 | 10,000 |
| 126 |
God destroyed Amaziah | 2Chr
25:15-27 | 1 | 1000 |
| 127 |
God smote Ahaz with the king of Syria | 2Chr
28:1-5 | – | 10,000 |
| 128 |
God killed 120,000 valiant men for forsaking him | 2Chr
28:6 | 120,000 | 120,000 |
| 129 |
The fall of Jerusalem | 2Chr
36:16-17 | – | 10,000 |
| 130 |
God and Satan kill Job's children and slaves | Job
1:18-19 | 10 | 60 |
| 131 |
Hananiah | Jeremiah
28:15-16 | 1 | 1 |
| 132 |
Ezekiel's wife | Ezek
24:15-18 | 1 | 1 |
| 133 |
Annanias and Sapphira | Acts
5:1-10 | 2 | 2 |
| 134 |
Herod | Acts
12:23 | 1 | 1 |
| 135 |
Jesus | Rom
8:32, 1Pet
1.18-20 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 2,476,636 | 24,634,205 |
Compiled by Steve Wells in
"How many did God kill"
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net;
vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
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