Religion Facts

The Bible contains plenty of puns, funny names, humorous imagery, sarcasm and irony.

In the Bible, God sent two bears to murder 42 children because they had mocked a man for being bald.

There is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin called 'Da Jesus Book'.

The phrase "God never gives you more than you can handle" never appears in the Bible and actually the opposite is said many times.

Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute or even overtly sexual.

Nowhere in the Bible does it say there were three wise men, just three gifts.

There's an organization that parachutes copies of the Bible into North Korea.

12% of Americans think Joan of Arc was Noah's wife, from the Bible.

There's no physical description of Jesus in the Bible.

When Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia, felt unwell, he would eat a few pages of the Bible.

The Bible was Isaac Newton's greatest passion, writing more about religion than science and mathematics.

Possessing Bibles, watching South Korean movies and distributing pornography may be punished with death in North Korea.