Christianity is often portrayed as a moral and pro-social system,
but many of its teachings and stories contain elements that could be considered immoral and antisocial by modern standards.
Below are key examples from the Bible that highlight this contradiction.
- Christianity Promotes Immorality (Violence, Slavery, Genocide, and Injustice)
Slavery Is Endorsed
Exodus 21:2-6 – “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years.
But in the seventh year, he shall go free… But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master…,’ then his master must take him before the judges.
He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.”
This allows lifelong slavery.
Leviticus 25:44-46 – “Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them, you may buy slaves.
You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you…
You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life.”
Endorses owning slaves permanently and passing them down as property.
Ephesians 6:5 – “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.”
Encourages submission to slavery rather than fighting for freedom.
Genocide and Mass Killing
Deuteronomy 7:1-2 – “When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out many nations before you…
then you must destroy them totally.
Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.”
Commands genocide against non-Israelites.
Numbers 31:17-18 – “Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,
but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.”
Orders mass murder and taking virgin girls as captives.
These virgins will be raped because no woman will love sleeping with a man who killed her entire family.
1 Samuel 15:3 – “Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them;
put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”
Justifies wiping out entire populations, including innocent children.
Human Sacrifice & Killing of Innocents
Judges 11:30-31, 34-39 – Jephthah sacrifices his own daughter to God after making a rash vow.
Exodus 12:29 – God kills all the firstborn sons of Egypt, including innocent children.
Genesis 22:2 – God commands Abraham to sacrifice his own son Isaac as a test of faith.
Women Are Inferior & Treated as Property
1 Corinthians 14:34-35 – “Women should remain silent in the churches.
They are not allowed to speak but must be in submission, as the law says.”
Denies women a voice in religious settings.
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 – “If a man finds a virgin who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,
then the man who lay with her shall give the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife.”
Forces rape victims to marry their rapists.
Exodus 21:7-8 – “If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.”
Allows fathers to sell their daughters into servitude.
- Christianity Promotes Antisocial Behavior (Division, Hatred, and Psychological Manipulation)
Encourages Hatred Toward Non-Believers
Luke 12:51-53 – “Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.
From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three.”
Jesus claims he came to divide families, not unite them.
Matthew 10:34-36 – “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth.
I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother.”
Encourages breaking family bonds in favor of religious loyalty.
2 Corinthians 6:14-15 – “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers.
For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common?”
Encourages separation from non-believers, making Christianity socially divisive.
Encourages Fear & Psychological Control
Matthew 12:31-32 – “Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven,
but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.”
Uses fear of eternal damnation to control thoughts and speech.
Mark 9:43-48 – “If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off.
It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.”
Promotes self-harm and extreme punishment for sin.
Matthew 5:29-30 – “If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away.”
Encourages self-mutilation for moral perfection.
Religious Hypocrisy & Double Standards
Romans 3:10-12 – “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.
All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
Condemns all humans as inherently evil while preaching mercy.
Matthew 23:27-28 – Jesus calls religious leaders “whitewashed tombs,” appearing righteous but full of hypocrisy.
Titus 1:16 – “They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.”
Christianity is a Tool for Control
Christianity has many teachings that justify violence, slavery, oppression, division, and psychological control.
It has been used by rulers and institutions to control the masses, weaken individuals,
and create dependence on religious authority.
If a person follows these teachings literally, they would be:
Immoral (accepting slavery, killing enemies, punishing the innocent).
Antisocial (rejecting non-believers, dividing families, fearing outsiders).
Psychologically Manipulated (fear of hell, guilt-based control, unquestioning obedience).
While modern Christianity has softened many of these harsh teachings, the core remains,
and the Bible is still used to justify oppression, fear, and control.
