Not a good parenting tip

Deuteronomy 21:18 says, "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:  21:19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;  21:20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.  21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear."  I somehow don't feel that this is a good model for parents to follow.  How many of God's chosen so far were drunkards.  The first name that pops into my head is Noah.  Should he have been stoned?

Women mean nothing to Christian God.

Deuteronomy 21:10 says, "When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,  21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;  21:12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;  21:13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife."  If God cared about women shouldn't he give her some of the choice?  Instead she is treated like a mule.  I understand she is a captive but I have read nothing that makes me believe women of Israel are treated any differently.  And you can see, I have been reading.  Why would any woman believe in a god who hates her?

People of Israel are always innocent

Deuteronomy 21:8 says, "Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.  21:9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD."  The only blood that God seems to care about is Human.  They just spilled innocent heifer blood.  This statement implies that the victim killed in 21:1 was innocent because he was an Israeli. From what I have read so far what is right in the eyes of the lord is pretty tainted and in many cases evil and twisted.  Very few times has it been fair. 

Just Kill a Heifer and it will be ok

Deuteronomy 21:1 says,  "If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:  21:2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:  21:3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;  21:4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:  21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:  21:6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:  21:7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it."  Umm... What did the heifer do?  Why does God insist on killing innocent animals.  what does this prove?  The elders wash their hands over it.  Couldn't they have left the animal alive for that?  And since when does a corpses proximity to a city prove that the guilty person lies in the city?  Shouldn't they investigate the crime and leave the poor innocent heifer alone?

Kill them all!!!

Deuteronomy 20:17 says, "But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:"  If God killed everyone in the flood why would there be other people on the earth?  Why would he want them killed? These people had to have been born from the Israelites, so why would a loving God forsake them and not speak and guide them like he did others? 

God tells them to sack cities

Deuteronomy 20:13 says, “And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

20:14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.” So god is basically saying kill all the men and take everything else for yourself. Women, children, everything. Why do women believe in this book? They are meer cattle to this god. Possessions.

God Doesn’t know again…

Deuteronomy 19:8 says, “And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;” Why would god need to enlarge anything. Shouldn’t he know exactly how big to make things?