SINS RELIGIOUS PEOPLE "THINK" ARE LISTED IN THE BIBLE
Rape, Torture, Slavery, Genocide, Polygamy, Wife beating, Skipping church, recreational drugs, birth control, pedophilia, gambling, abortion, war.
SINS RELIGIOUS PEOPLE "THINK" AND "ACTUALLY" ARE IN THE BIBLE
Murder, Homosexuality, Premarital Sex, Adultery, Stealing
SINS "ACTUALLY" LISTED IN THE BIBLE
Braided Hair, Public Prayer, Eating Shrimp, Beard Trimming, Working on Sunday, Most modern clothing, women speaking in church, women in authority, eating oysters, some haircuts, masturbation, eating bacon, tattoos.
Just for the record, Onanism (the so-called "sin" of masturbation) is not about masturbation. Tamar was, frankly, a hot babe. Later in the story she had no problem passing as a Temple prostitute. Onan was required to marry her, his sister-in-law, when she was childless when Onan's brother did something that made god open a whole in the ground and swallow him. So Onan wanted to "tap that" in the worst way, but did NOT want to have a child who would be legally his older brother's child in the rules of inheritance. The sin is schtupping someone while violating the implicit and explicit promises involved in two people opening up totally to each other.
Very entertaining
@DeeTe This is a marginal nitpick on the explanation you received. Genesis actually shows the people doing many of the sins that would later be forbidden in the rest of the OT. It was from Ezra and afterwards that any sexual act without the possibility of conception was prohibited.The careful reader will note, however, that being a lesbian is nowhere prohibited in the OT.
Obviously designed to stop you committing sins that you would not have thought were sins. It would have been nice to have them listed as the Additional 13 Commandments.
In my experience, most religious people use the Bible as a showy centerpiece, not something to read. Iβve also noted that atheists who have converted from Christianity usually have a much higher knowledge of the Bible than Christians. Atheists who have grown up in secular households usually donβt care and have very little knowledge.