Drunk With Blood: God's Killings in the Bible

Revised 2nd Edition With 23 New Killings from the Apocrypha

You've probably heard of a few of the stories in this book. Noah's Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, David and Goliath, maybe. But there are more than 150 others that are unknown to pretty much everyone. Did you know, for example, that God:

• Forced friends and family to kill each other for dancing naked around Aaron's golden calf?
• Burned complainers to death and forced the survivors to eat quail until it literally came out their noses?
• Sent "fiery serpents" to bite people for complaining about the lack of food and water, and then killed 14,700 for complaining about his killings?
• Helped Samson murder thirty men for their clothes, slaughter 1000 with the jawbone of an ass, and kill 3000 civilians in a a suicide terrorist attack?
• Smote Philistines with hemorrhoids in their secret parts?
• Slowly killed a baby to punish David for committing adultery?
• Killed 70,000 because David had a census that he (or Satan) told him to do?
• Sent a lion to kill a prophet for believing another prophet's lie, another lion to kill a man for not smiting a prophet, and more lions to kill people that didn't fear him enough?
• Killed 450 religious leaders in a prayer contest and burned 102 men to death for asking Elijah to come down from his hill?
• Sent two bears to rip apart 42 boys for making fun of Elisha's bald head?
• Killed Ahab for not killing a captured king, and then sent Jehu to kill all of Ahab's family and friends who had ever "pissed against a wall"?
• Killed Ananias and Sapphira for not giving Saint Peter all of the money from the sale of their land?

All of these killings, and many more, are found in the Bible, and the God of the Bible is proud of each one.

Here's what he said about them: "I kill ... I wound ... I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh." -- Deuteronomy 32:39-42

These stories fill the pages of the Bible, yet they are seldom read in church and are ignored by most Bible believers. Drunk with Blood brings them out into the open. It's time for us all to take a look.

"An eye-opening look at the rapes, genocides, and murders that are recounted with relish and approval in the so-called Good Book, and a nice reminder of how modern secular morality, based on human rights and human flourishing, is so much further advanced than the traditional morality of religion."

STEVEN PINKER, Johnstone Family Professor, Harvard University, and the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

"If you ask Christians to describe the God they believe in, they'll tell you that he's kind, merciful, and perfect. In this book, Steve Wells reveals the God of the Bible for what he really is: a bloodthirsty killer. In this meticulously documented book, we're taken through a series of slaughters that will make you rethink everything you learned in Sunday School. If you still worship God by the end of it, you have some expaining to do"

HEMANT MEHTA, editor of FriendlyAthiest.com and author of The Young Athiest's Survival Guide

Hemant Mehta went through all of God's killings in an amazing 2 and a half hour marathon YouTube video. I highly recommend it.

There is also a Drunk With Blood audiobook that is read by Brendan Littlefield. Here is the intro:

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