7 Barbaric Bible Laws Evangelicals Still Defend

They call it God’s perfect Word. Read it yourself and decide if it’s holy—or horrifying.

Evangelicals love to shout that the Bible is “God’s perfect Word.” No mistakes. No contradictions. Just divine truth from cover to cover.

But once you strip away the hymns and Hallmark quotes, the Bible reads less like moral guidance and more like a torture manual dressed in ancient poetry.

If these same verses came from any other religion, evangelicals would call it barbaric, demonic, or Satanic. But because it’s in their book, they twist, defend, or hide behind the classic excuse: “You’re taking it out of context.”

So let’s see what “God’s perfect Word” really says. And how evangelicals still try to defend the indefensible.