The Unholy Truth

The Unholy Truth

The Bible’s Obsession With Incest

How family sex stories made it into scripture and what it says about ancient values

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Tanner the Humanist
Sep 21, 2025
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Collage of an open Bible with a twisted family tree on one side and a Jerry Springer–style stage labeled “The Jerry Springer Show” on the other, symbolizing how biblical incest stories resemble modern talk show chaos.

The Good Book is full of family dramas that would make even the late Jerry Springer blush. You’d think a holy text would rise above soap opera drama, but instead the Bible keeps circling back to incest, cousin marriages, father-daughter weirdness, and brother-sister hookups. Preachers like to sweep these stories under the rug, but they’re right there i…

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