As my antithestic tendencies increase, I’ve become involved in an interesting movement. It will undoubtedly offend many and while that is surely fun, the main purpose is to cause people to critically analyze their religious beliefs. The Devil’s Highlighter points out several instances of immorality, contradictions, obscenities and silliness in the bible. I’m constantly surprised with the things I find. Such as:

• Leviticus 25:44-46 | Slavery is Okay
• Numbers 31:17-18 | Moses kills people then divides up the virgin girls
• Deuteronomy 22:28-29 | Rape victim forced to marry rapist.
• 1 Samuel 18:23-27 | 200 foreskins gain David a king’s daughter
• Proverbs 23:13-14 | beating kids is good
• Ezekiel 23:19-20 | Sex organs and ejaculate of harlots’ lovers compared to asses & horses
• 1 Corinthians 14:33-35 | Disgraceful for women to speak in church
• 2 Thessalonians 2:11-2 | God makes people believe lies then condemns them for it
• And it just gets worse

I’m very impressed with how well everything is researched. I’m a little partial because I’m part of the team that hunts these things down. We actually read the entire chapter then the entire book of the bible in question just to make sure that we’re not taking anything out of context. We also do online searches to see what other people are saying about the verses. Any time we can come up with expert interpretations or theists who agree with our conclusions, we point it out.

Remember, if the Devil can quote scripture to his own ends, then anyone can and the bible loses it’s ability to be used as a tool for teaching in righteousness… and that’s the point of this movement. It’s not just a biblical contradiction site either. The idea is to take bibles and highlight in them so that when arguments about scripture arise, they can say “hey, when I had questions I read my bible. If you’ll read my bible here from cover to cover, we can continue this debate.” It also encourages people to take free bibles, highlight them and pass them out again. If you don’t feel like doing that, you can always print out the list.

The interesting thing is that I’ve actually seen them make a post where they mention that the verse is taken out of context.

Luke 14:26 | You can’t be a disciple of Jesus unless you hate your family

They specifically mention that this verse is often used by atheists to mean something which Jesus didn’t intend. While the wording is a little strange for what he was really meaning to imply, it seems as if this verse, in combination with the verses that follow, are suggesting that we give up everything including our families, friends and self in order to follow him. It then goes to mention that even that is a terrible thing and is certainly not common practice among modern Christians.

It’s fun, it’s interesting, you’ll learn, you’ll laugh, you might get angry but that’s okay too. Check it out:
http://www.devilshighlighter.com