“Why is the Bible so violent?”
On one level the answer
to this is fairly obvious: any work that accurately documents human history or
tells a believable tale of any length and scope about us will invariably
involve violence unless it is highly censored or terribly dishonest. Julius Caesar is violent too, as is Macbeth, Moby Dick and even To Kill a
Mockingbird.
So the Bible is
violent because people are violent.
