Hosea

I’ll defer here to the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible, which sums Hosea up better than I could manage.

Hosea is a book filled with whoredoms, children of whoredoms, adulteries between breasts, buying wives with barley, ripping pregnant women apart, and killing unborn babies. What will surprise most believers is that it is God who does the ripping and killing and who tells Hosea to buy a wife and marry a whore. Biblical family values at its best.