That’s Not From God

Q. A father is told to tie up his son and cut his throat to prove he is loyal.

Illegal today"Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac... and offer him there for a burnt offering." Genesis 22:2

Today that is attempted murder of a child, and the state takes the child away. No loyalty test on earth is allowed to look like this. Ask why heaven's is.

Q. A child who curses his parents is to be put to death.

Illegal today"He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death." Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9

Every parent has been cursed by a teenager. Executing one is a crime in every country on earth.

Q. A man picks up sticks on the Sabbath. The whole camp stones him.

Illegal today"And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died." Numbers 15:32-36

Killing a man for gathering firewood on the wrong day. Common sense says a rule that costs a life for sticks is not from a good lawgiver.

Q. A bride who is found not to be a virgin is stoned at her father's door.

Illegal today"Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her." Deuteronomy 22:20-21

Murder of a woman over her past. No court would allow it; no father should.

Q. A rapist pays the girl's father fifty shekels and then she must marry him.

Illegal today"He shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife." Deuteronomy 22:28-29

The victim is sentenced to life with her attacker and the father is paid. That is the crime, with a receipt.

Q. You may sell your daughter as a slave.

Illegal today"If a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do." Exodus 21:7

Selling a child is human trafficking. It is in the Law as a normal transaction.

Q. You may beat your slave, and if he survives a day or two, there is no punishment, because he is your money.

Illegal today"If he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money." Exodus 21:20-21

A person is called money. That sentence is the whole problem in seven words.

Q. Kill every man, woman, infant, ox, sheep, camel and donkey.

Illegal today"Slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep." 1 Samuel 15:3; Deuteronomy 20:16-17; Joshua 6:21

That is the legal definition of genocide. The Genocide Convention was written so no one could ever again say a god ordered it.

Q. Kill the boys and the married women, but keep the virgin girls for yourselves.

Sick"But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." Numbers 31:17-18

Read that line to anyone who has a daughter and watch their face. That is the common-sense test, and it fails it.

Q. A wife suspected of cheating is made to drink dust water so her belly swells and her thigh rots if she is guilty.

Sick"The water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot." Numbers 5:11-31

A magic potion trial for women only, run by a priest. No such test exists for a suspected husband.

Q. Blood is dabbed on the priest's right ear, right thumb and right big toe.

Ritual"He put of the blood upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot." Leviticus 8:23-24

Ask what an ear, a thumb and a toe have to do with holiness. No one can tell you. That is what ritual is.

Q. A red cow is burned whole and its ashes make you clean from touching the dead.

Ritual"They shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto." Numbers 19:2-9

Five red cows were flown to Israel in 2022 to try it again. The cow does nothing. The belief does everything.

Q. God regrets making mankind and drowns everyone on earth except eight people.

Makes no sense"It repented the LORD that he had made man... and it grieved him at his heart." Genesis 6:6-7

An all-knowing maker surprised by his own product, and the fix is to kill every baby on the planet. Common sense asks who wrote that, and why.

Q. God hardens Pharaoh's heart, then punishes Egypt for Pharaoh's hard heart.

Makes no sense"And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh." Exodus 9:12; 10:20; 11:10

Rigging a man's choice and then killing every firstborn in the country for the choice. Exodus 12:29. No judge would accept it.

Q. Lot offers his two virgin daughters to a mob, is called righteous, and later fathers children with both of them.

Sick"Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me bring them out unto you." Genesis 19:8; 19:30-38; 2 Peter 2:7

The book calls this man "just Lot." Ask any mother whether that word fits.

Q. A woman looks back at her burning city and is turned into a pillar of salt.

Makes no sense"His wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." Genesis 19:26

Executed for looking. Not for doing. For looking.

Q. A son who will not obey is taken to the gate by his own parents, and the men of the town stone him to death.

Illegal today"Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city... and all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die." Deuteronomy 21:18-21

A parent who hands a disobedient teenager to a mob is charged with his murder. The book calls it putting evil away.

Q. A woman who grabs a man by the private parts in a fight has her hand cut off, and no one may pity her.

Illegal today"Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her." Deuteronomy 25:11-12

The only bodily mutilation ordered by name in the law of Moses, and it is for a wife defending her husband.

Q. A man with damaged testicles, and a child born out of wedlock, may not enter the congregation of the LORD, the child's line for ten generations.

Morally wrong"He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation." Deuteronomy 23:1-2

A wound and a birth, neither chosen, and both bar you from God for two hundred years of descendants.

Q. A blind man, a lame man, a man with a flat nose, a broken foot, a hunchback or a dwarf may not come near the altar.

Morally wrong"For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose... or crookbackt, or a dwarf." Leviticus 21:17-21

Every disabled person is told the altar is not for them. Ask any hospital chaplain if that came from God.

Q. Do not let a witch live.

Illegal today"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Exodus 22:18

Seven words. Between 1450 and 1750 they were read over the executions of some forty to sixty thousand people, most of them women. The verse is still printed.

Q. A shirt of wool and linen together is forbidden.

Makes no sense"Neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee." Leviticus 19:19; Deuteronomy 22:11

Check the label on what you are wearing. By this line, most of the church is in sin every Sunday.

Q. Buy slaves from the nations around you, and they and their children are your property for ever.

Illegal today"Of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids... they shall be your bondmen for ever." Leviticus 25:44-46

The exact verse quoted on the floor of the United States Senate in defence of slavery. It says what the slaveholders said it says.

Q. If your own brother, son, daughter or wife suggests another god, you must kill them, and your hand must be the first on them.

Illegal today"Thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people." Deuteronomy 13:6-10

Kill your child for a difference of belief, and be the first to throw. No family court on earth would hear the defence.

Q. A mother is unclean for seven days after a boy and fourteen after a girl, and needs twice as long to be purified for the girl.

Makes no sense"If she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks... and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days." Leviticus 12:2-5

A daughter makes her mother twice as dirty as a son. Ask why God would count it that way.

Q. A man refuses to father a child on his dead brother's wife, and God kills him for it.

Sick"And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also." Genesis 38:9-10

Death for a private act between a man and a woman, by the hand of God, in the same chapter where the father-in-law hires a roadside prostitute and lives.

Q. God meets Moses at an inn and tries to kill him. His wife cuts off their son's foreskin and throws it at his feet, and God lets him go.

Makes no sense"The LORD met him, and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me." Exodus 4:24-26

Three verses after God sends Moses to Egypt, God tries to kill Moses, and a piece of a baby's skin stops Him. No preacher reads this one aloud.

Q. Men complain about their leader. The earth opens and swallows them with their wives and their little children. Then a plague kills fourteen thousand seven hundred more for complaining about that.

Sick"They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit... Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred." Numbers 16:32-33, 49

The children did not complain. They went into the pit with the fathers. Then the mourners were killed for mourning.

Q. For disobedience, the curse from God is that you will eat your own sons and daughters.

Sick"And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters." Deuteronomy 28:53; Leviticus 26:29

This is not the devil's threat. It is written as God's own curse, in God's own voice, on His own people.

Q. After the golden calf, the priests are ordered to go through the camp killing brothers, friends and neighbours. Three thousand die.

Illegal today"Slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men." Exodus 32:27-28

A massacre of three thousand by the priesthood, and the priesthood is blessed for it in the next verse.

Q. Forty-two children mock a prophet for being bald. Two bears come out and tear them apart.

Sick"There came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them." 2 Kings 2:23-24

Forty-two dead children for a joke about a hairline. This is in the same book that says suffer the little children.

Q. A general vows to sacrifice whatever comes out of his house first if he wins. His daughter comes out. He burns her.

Sick"And he did with her according to his vow which he had vowed." Judges 11:30-39

A father burns his own daughter to keep a bet. The book records it without one word against him.

Q. A king buys a wife with two hundred foreskins cut from dead men.

Sick"David... slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins." 1 Samuel 18:25-27

The bride price was body parts. That is the man after God's own heart, on the day of his wedding.

Q. A man steadies the ark so it will not fall, and God kills him on the spot for touching it.

Makes no sense"And God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God." 2 Samuel 6:6-7

He was helping. He died for helping. Ask what that teaches a child about God.

Q. God kills a man's ten children on a bet with Satan, then gives him ten new ones as if they were replaceable.

Morally wrong"Hast thou considered my servant Job?... So went Satan forth." Job 1:8-19; 42:13

Children are not livestock. Replacement is not restoration. Every parent knows it.

Q. A dead man thrown onto Elisha's bones comes back to life.

Ritual"When the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet." 2 Kings 13:21

This one verse is the seed of every relic in every altar in Rome: bones with power. Common sense asks why the bones stopped working after this one time.

Q. A donkey argues with its owner. A snake talks a woman into fruit. The sun stops in the sky for a day.

Makes no senseNumbers 22:28-30; Genesis 3:1-5; Joshua 10:12-13

You are asked to believe these as history and to jail your neighbour if he claims a vision. Pick one standard.

Q. For David's adultery, God's punishment is that David's wives will be raped in public by another man, and David's newborn son will die.

Sick"I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun... the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die." 2 Samuel 12:11-14

The man sins. The women and the baby pay. Then the book says the baby's death is the LORD's doing.

Q. God moves David to count the people. Then seventy thousand people die of plague because David counted them. The next book says it was Satan who moved him.

Makes no sense"The anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel." 2 Samuel 24:1. "And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel." 1 Chronicles 21:1

Two books, one event, two authors of it: the LORD in one, Satan in the other. Seventy thousand dead for a headcount either way.

Q. A prophet is told to marry a prostitute. Another is told to bake his bread over human excrement.

Sick"Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms." Hosea 1:2. "Thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight." Ezekiel 4:12

Ezekiel begged, and God let him use cow dung instead. That is the mercy in the passage.

Q. A prophet describes a woman lusting after lovers whose genitals are like donkeys' and whose emission is like horses'.

Sick"For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses." Ezekiel 23:20

This is in the book handed to children in Sunday school. Read it to a child and see if a parent calls it holy.

Q. A man hands his concubine to a mob. They rape her all night. In the morning he cuts her body into twelve pieces and mails them across the country.

Sick"He took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel." Judges 19:25-29

No one in the chapter is punished for what was done to her. The war that follows is over the insult to him.

Q. Happy is the man who smashes babies against rocks.

Sick"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." Psalm 137:9

A psalm. Sung. Ask who wrote the line about the babies and whether God signed it.

Q. The book puts the words "I create evil" in the Father's mouth.

Makes no senseIsaiah 45:7

The Father never said it. The line was written in Babylon, two hundred years after the prophet whose name is on the book, by a hand the scholars themselves cannot name. Every church since has softened the word to "calamity" because they know it cannot stand beside Him. It is listed here only so you know where the lie is.

Q. God says He gave His people laws that were not good, so they could not live by them.

Makes no sense"Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live." Ezekiel 20:25

If the laws were not good, why are they printed as the word of God, and why is a child stoned under them?

Q. Fifty thousand and seventy men of one small town are struck dead for looking into a box.

Makes no sense"He smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men." 1 Samuel 6:19

Bethshemesh was a village. Fifty thousand is a city. Either the number is invented or God emptied a region for a glance.

Q. A prophet calls fire down from heaven and burns alive one hundred and two soldiers who were sent to fetch him.

Sick"And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty." 2 Kings 1:10-12

Twice. The third captain begs on his knees and lives. The first hundred and two were men following orders.

Q. God tells the priests He will smear the dung of their own feasts on their faces.

Sick"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts." Malachi 2:3

The last book of the Old Testament. The last thing God says to His priests. The churches skip it.

Q. Unless you eat his flesh and drink his blood you have no life in you.

Ritual"Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you." John 6:53-56

The Law forbids eating blood on pain of being cut off (Leviticus 17:10-14). The church built its central ritual on doing it every Sunday and says the bread really becomes a body. By its own definition that is a cannibal rite. Ask why that is the one thing you must do.

Q. Unless you hate your father, mother, wife, children and your own life, you cannot be a disciple.

Morally wrong"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children... he cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:26

Every cult on earth begins with this sentence. Cut the family off, keep the recruit.

Q. If your eye or your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.

Sick"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out... if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off." Matthew 5:29-30

Origen took it literally and castrated himself. The church later made that a crime. So the church itself decided this verse cannot mean what it says.

Q. A husband and wife hold back some of their own money from the apostles and drop dead on the spot.

Morally wrong"Ananias... fell down, and gave up the ghost... his wife... fell down straightway at his feet." Acts 5:1-10

Two people die in church over a donation. Every building fund since has stood on that fear.

Q. He curses a fig tree for having no fruit when it was not the season for figs.

Makes no sense"For the time of figs was not yet... No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever." Mark 11:13-14, 20

Punishing a tree for the calendar. The book says outright it was not the season.

Q. Two thousand pigs, someone's livelihood, are driven into the sea to drown.

Makes no sense"The herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked." Mark 5:13

A whole town's livestock destroyed and the town asks him to leave. Common sense agrees with the town.

Q. Women must keep silent and may not teach or hold authority over a man. Slaves must obey their masters with fear and trembling.

Morally wrong1 Timothy 2:11-12; 1 Corinthians 14:34; Ephesians 6:5; 1 Peter 2:18

Two thousand years of every church council being men, and every plantation chaplain, come from these four lines.

Q. Why did he die? Nothing changed.

Makes no senseMatthew 27; John 19

The sacrifice was made, the people did not stop one thing, and the world went on exactly as before: sin, death, wars, buying and selling. The only thing that changed was that a new church had a new god it could keep forever. Ask what a sacrifice is for if nothing after it is different.

Q. A father's son is killed, and every year the killers thank the father for it.

SickThe cross, the crucifix, the Mass

If someone killed your son and thanked you for it once a year, you would be sick to your stomach. That is what is on the wall of every church. Then you are told to kiss it. I did. I am disgusted by it.

Q. The dead do not come back to life. Except once, and that is the whole proof.

Makes no sense1 Corinthians 15:14

God is said to break the rules of His own design one time, in front of a few people, and nothing after it changed. Common sense asks why He would break the law once and never again, when breaking it once more would settle every argument for ever.

Q. He says He did not come to bring peace but a sword, and to set a man against his own father.

Makes no sense"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father." Matthew 10:34-35

The same book calls him the Prince of Peace. Pick one.

Q. Bring the ones who did not want me as king, and kill them in front of me.

Sick"But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me." Luke 19:27

It is a parable. He chose the ending. The king in his story executes the people for not wanting him.

Q. A foreign woman begs him to heal her daughter. He calls her people dogs.

Morally wrong"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs." Matthew 15:26

He heals the girl only after the mother accepts the insult and calls herself a dog eating crumbs.

Q. He speaks in riddles on purpose, so that the crowd will not understand, will not turn, and will not be forgiven.

Makes no sense"That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them." Mark 4:12

Read it twice. The stated reason for the parables is to keep people from being saved.

Q. Some have castrated themselves for the kingdom of heaven. Whoever can accept it, let him accept it.

Sick"There be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it." Matthew 19:12

Origen, the most learned Christian of his century, read this and castrated himself. The church later condemned him, not the verse.

Q. Believers will pick up snakes and drink poison and not be harmed.

Makes no sense"They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them." Mark 16:18

People die in Appalachian churches doing exactly this. The verse is in the ending of Mark that the two oldest Bibles in the world do not contain.

Q. A woman who prays with her head uncovered should have her head shaved. Long hair on a man is a disgrace.

Makes no sense"If the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn... Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?" 1 Corinthians 11:6, 14

Every painting of Jesus in every church shows him with long hair.

Q. The woman was the one deceived, so she will be saved by having children.

Morally wrong"Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing." 1 Timothy 2:14-15

Half of mankind blamed for the fall and told their salvation is in the delivery room.

Q. God loved one twin and hated the other before they were born, and makes some people to be destroyed, as a potter makes a pot to smash.

Morally wrong"Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated... Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?" Romans 9:13, 21

A God who makes people in order to hate them. Ask if you would call that love from anyone else.

Q. At the crucifixion, graves opened and many dead saints got up and walked into Jerusalem and were seen by many. No one else in the world wrote it down.

Makes no sense"And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." Matthew 27:52-53

The dead walking through a capital city under Roman rule, and not one Roman, Jew or Greek outside this one gospel mentions it.

Q. A crowd says, His blood be on us and on our children. The churches used the line for nineteen centuries to justify what they did to Jews.

Morally wrong"Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children." Matthew 27:25

One sentence, put in the mouth of a crowd, and every pogrom in Europe quoted it. Ask who benefited from it being there.

Q. God Himself sends people a strong delusion so that they will believe a lie and be damned.

Morally wrong"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned." 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12

A God who deceives people on purpose so He can condemn them for being deceived. Written as doctrine.

Q. The hundred and forty-four thousand closest to the throne are men who were never defiled by women.

Morally wrong"These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins." Revelation 14:4

Women as defilement, in the last book, at the throne. Every mother who reads it is told she is the stain.

Q. An angel calls the birds to a feast on the flesh of kings, captains, horses and all men, free and slave, small and great.

Sick"Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; that ye may eat the flesh of kings... and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great." Revelation 19:17-18

This is the ending the churches wait for. The Word says it: the battle they want is one no one has seen, and it is written as a buffet for crows.

Q. A man asks to bury his father first. He is told to let the dead bury the dead.

Morally wrong"Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead." Matthew 8:21-22

Every culture on earth buries its father. This is the one teacher who said not to.

Q. Asked straight out whether he is the Son of God, he never says yes. He hands the question back: you say that I am.

Makes no sense"Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I am." Luke 22:70. "Tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said." Matthew 26:63-64. "Art thou the King of the Jews? Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?" John 18:33-34. "Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?... But whom say ye that I am?" Matthew 16:13-15

If he were from God he would have answered the one question everyone came to ask, or said plainly, there is one coming. Every time it is put to him he gives a question back, or a "you said it." Everyone quotes "eye hath not seen" and then says, I love my Jesus, he saved us. Ask why the answer was never a yes.

Q. Burn the ones who disagree.

Illegal todayPorete 1310, Hus 1415, Joan of Arc 1431, Savonarola 1498, Bruno 1600; admitted by the Pope on 12 March 2000

Murder, admitted by the murderer's own office five centuries later. Case File 10.

Q. Sell time off from the fire after death.

Morally wrongSixtus IV, 1476, to Pius V, 1567. Case File 10, section 7d

Ninety-one years of selling a product that cannot be delivered or checked. Today that is fraud.

Q. Kiss the dead body, kiss the bone, kiss the ring.

RitualThe relic in every altar, Trent 1563; the crucifix; the papal ring

Kissing a corpse for protection. Say it out loud in any other setting and see what happens.

Q. Baptize the baby before it can speak, then count it as a member for life.

Morally wrongPractice since the 3rd century; 1.4 billion counted

No contract on earth binds a person who never consented. The church counts you from the font.

Q. Confess your sins to a man in a box, once a year at least, or you cannot receive communion.

Morally wrongFourth Lateran Council, canon 21, 1215

A man may not hear God's answer, but a man must hear your sins. Ask who that arrangement serves.

Q. Pray to a dead man on a cross, in a building, through a priest, in a language you do not speak.

RitualLatin until 1965; the crucifix; the altar rail

Four walls between you and the God who made the sky. Every one of them was built by the church, not by Him.

Q. Say no vision will ever again be called God's, and require a psychiatrist before you even look.

Morally wrongNorms of 17 May 2024, article 22

The same office approved sixteen visions in five hundred years and burned the rest. Now it has closed the gate for good. Common sense: an office that cannot recognize God is not His office.

Q. Hear the man out face to face two days after the sky opened, hug him, and never ask him one question.

Illegal today3 February 2024; 25 May 2026; Case Files 7 and 9; Declaration 025

In any other institution a claim with a photograph and a date gets a file opened. Here it got silence. That is the whole reason this site exists.

Q. Babies who die unbaptized are shut out of heaven. Taught for eight hundred years, then quietly dropped.

Morally wrongLimbo, from Augustine through the catechisms; withdrawn by the International Theological Commission, 2007

Generations of grieving mothers were told their infant was outside heaven for lack of a priest's water. Then a commission decided it probably was not true. No apology, no verse either way.

Q. Boys were castrated so their voices would stay high for the church choir. The Sistine Chapel kept them into the twentieth century.

SickThe castrati; the last, Alessandro Moreschi, sang in the Sistine Chapel until 1913

The verse says whoever is wounded in the stones may not enter the congregation. The church cut the boys and put them at the front of it.

Q. Forbid the people to own the Bible in their own language, and burn the man who translated it.

Morally wrongCouncil of Toulouse, 1229: laymen forbidden to possess the scriptures. William Tyndale, strangled and burned at Vilvoorde, 6 October 1536, for translating the New Testament into English

The book they say is the word of God was a crime to read for three centuries. Nine tenths of the King James Bible is Tyndale's English.

Q. A pope dug up the corpse of the previous pope, dressed it in vestments, put it on trial, cut off its fingers and threw it in the river.

SickThe Cadaver Synod, Rome, January 897: Pope Stephen VI and the body of Pope Formosus

This is the office that says no vision will ever again be called God's without its permission.

Q. Declare that no one outside the church can be saved, not Jews, not heretics, not anyone, unless they join it before they die.

Morally wrongCouncil of Florence, 1442: "no one remaining outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews, heretics or schismatics, can become partakers of eternal life"

Every soul on earth outside one building, damned by decree. The same council that could not find room for Enoch found room for that.

Q. Kill in a holy war and all your sins are forgiven.

Morally wrongPope Urban II at Clermont, 27 November 1095: remission of sins for those who took the cross

The first crusade began by killing the Jews of the Rhineland on the way. Every one of those men had been promised heaven for it.

Q. Declare the pope cannot be wrong when he speaks on faith, by a vote of bishops, in 1870.

Makes no senseFirst Vatican Council, Pastor Aeternus, 18 July 1870

An office that had already tried a corpse, sold time off from the fire and burned the translator of the Bible voted itself infallible. Ask what the vote proves.