Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

. . . and will probably be expanded a bit:

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, and evolutionists, and Communists, and abortionists, and Democrats, and socialists, and foreigners, and homosexuals, and atheists, and people who voted for Barack Obama, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

I think that such project is suicidal for any religious organisation...

Oh, it's much worse than that! Evidently these folks -- like so many other Christians -- have not yet bothered to read the Bible all the way through. Had they done so, this bit from the very last page would probably have made them a little nervous:

For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Rev 22:18-19

Just take a look at the moronic* page regarding evolution on Conservapedia (which is about 20 times longer now than when I first saw it; yikes!). I think you can figure out for yourself what their position on Genesis is likely to be.

* I used that word for the link since I don't know if rel="nofollow" is added to links in comments or not, and I don't want google to associate that page with searches for evolution... and after having read some more of the page, that does appear to be the operative word in my sentence after all.

Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, provided he not be an immigrant from far-away lands.

TEP wins the thread for this comment - he very nearly cracked me up in the middle of my office. :) Although I have to say, I think I like Alex's conservative interpretation of the "peacemakers" verse even better than mine.

Crumb's a cool dude, but there's just no beating The Brick Testament.
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Thanks for the link, D. I was just having a bit of fun reading through it, when I happened to come upon a particularly gruesome passage...

OMFG... GOD KILLS A BABY!!

I know this is waaaaaaay off topic, and the atrocities in the Bible are absolutely legion, but in 2 Samuel 12:1-18, God sends a messanger to tell King David that he has displeased Him. David repents and begs forgiveness, but God is having none of it. He deliberately kills David's baby son out of spite!!!

HOW F***ED IS THAT?!?!

I'm not even sure why this gave me such a chill. After all, God killed hundreds of babies in the tenth plague of Egypt, and in various wars, but at least then wars and 'good causes' were, if not excuses, then moral complications. But the malicious act of 'You've displeased me, so I'll kill your baby...'??!!?!

Eeeurrgh, I need a shower. 'Good Book' my hairy arse!

Sorry, just needed to rant about that for a bit.

Hast thou ever seen a crocoduck or a dat? Hast thou ever seen kinds change before thine eyes? I tell thee today that god has created you from the dirt and thou didst not come from no monkey.

prase "I think that such project is suicidal for any religious organisation - since they have no basis how to settle arguments, one can expect sectarian disputes between different branches of fundies over amost every verse."
And that's different from the past, how? One man's exegesis is another's path to heresy. Luckily, this is America, where a True Believer is free to, upon finding that his denomination isn't reading the Bible rightly (note: not a real word), leave, walk a mile down the road and start his own One True Church™.

Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD."

Given that the Bible authors would not have commanded us to love godless liberals, they must clearly have actually meant the following:

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy conservative Christian neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

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Deuteronomy 15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

Well, of course, that wasn't referring to people who were literally poor - because that would be advocating Communism. No, it clearly must be referring to the need to minister to those who are spiritually poor, through not being conservative Christians, and preach to them about the wickedness of their ways:

If there be among you a man poor in spirit, lacking in Christian faith, of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy ignorant brother: But thou shalt open thine mouth wide unto him, and shalt surely preach unto him sufficient for his spiritual need.

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Deuteronomy 24:14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates.

Foreign immigration obviously wasn't a problem in godly times. If it had been, the Bible authors would surely have written this:

Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, provided he not be an immigrant from far-away lands.

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Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Now, Jesus surely couldn't have meant that Conservatives shouldn't judge godless liberals, and condemn them for their wicked ways. Obviously, he must have instead been referring to the dangers of criticising other Conservatives:

Judge not your fellow Conservatives, lest they judge you to be no better than those godless sodomites espousing liberalism.