You should understand that ideas, ideologies and religions can't kill others, hate people or something like this.
Only people can do it.
It's very often that people misunderstand basic ideas behind religions and do very bad things in the name of God or their own religion.
Still, we shouldn't accuse religion for it but people.
I disagree with your statement that we shouldn't blame religion... religion is the enabler
Without religion, these people might not have killed anyone...
It's like someone inventing a nuke, then when people misuse it, and destroy the planet, you blame people? You have to blame both... without the nuke, people would not have been able to destroy the planet... same goes for religion, it enables people to be wicked while believing they are the good guy... (flying an airplane into a building, et al)
It's an evil book, which enables people to act in evil ways
All the Book talks about doing is destroying evil people and anything that they make evil. Destroying evil is good. The Book is good.
It also has wonderful moral lessons... like... if an angry mob wants to rape your house-guests, you should let the mob rape your virgin daughters instead (ref. Lot and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah)
Then later on... on the drive home
I called her mom... from a pay phone
I said I was the cops... and your husband's in jail
The state looks down on sodomy
My church did not even segregate these fairy tales based on age... I knew what both sodomy and rape were by the time I was 6
(from the stories, not the priest... super sad that I need to clarify this... just sayin)
Why do you consider
that a moral lesson? If you look at the history of mankind right up to the present, people are doing crazy, bad things, right up to the present. You might have had a bad life up until recently, but that is no reason to suggest that handing your daughters over to a mob to rape them is Biblical marching orders.
You might have an excuse for such warped, evil, retarded thinking. But if you don't seek psychological help to remove such thinking, you are simply proving out the history of mankind as shown in the Bible, even though you are proving in different ways... that mankind is wicked and evil.
Part of the point being made by the "Lot" story is, that even though Lot and the people back then had a twisted sense of honor, God still loved them, still forgave them, and still worked to save them, as long as they were trusting in God. And that is your downfall. You present an evil view of the Bible... a view that is part lie, but unlike Lot, you don't trust in God. There was forgiveness for Lot, but without faith in God, there is no forgiveness for you.
