• 1:4 - 2:2 The divine pyromaniac threatens to "send fire unto" Hazael, Gaza, Teman, Rabbah, and Moab. Just the normal course of ancient warfare -- I guess that makes us "shootomaniacs" and "bombomaniacs"...
• 1:9 This is about as close to the Bible saying "slavery is wrong" as you'll get. God threatens to destroy Tyrus for, in part, selling slaves to Edom. But, it is unclear if Tyrus will be destroyed because of this, or because these particular slaves in some way violated the "brotherly covenant." Doesn't matter anyway. As noted here.
• 2:3 God will "slay all the princes" of Moab. And the princes of course were just sitting around playing pinochle. See here.
• 2:7 God predicts that "a man and his father will go in unto the same maid." Wow, let's make a deal over a political analyst predicting atrocities in Serbia...
• 2:16 On the day of God's wrath, brave men "shall flee away naked." And the problem with this is? SAB must be one of those guys who gets into giggle fits by going up to people and saying, "I have a surprise under there," and getting them to say, "Under where?"
• 3:2 God explains that he punishes the Israelites because he knows them so well. Um, yeah. The word for "know" is the wide-ranging word yada. It's taken to mean that because God has a covenant relationship with Israel, He is fulfilling the Deuteronomic pledges to punish their sin. Hello?
• 3:6 All evil comes from God, despite other verses that say he is good. See here.
• 3:7 This says God reveals his plans to his prophets. But what about those times when God lies through his prophets? Um, yeah, as if this means this is ALL God did through prophets...SAB just doesn't get out of that uni-dimensional thinking too well.
• 4:1 The words "kine" and "masters" here in the KJV are translated as "cow" and "husbands," respectively, in several other versions (NRSV, NIV, NJB, among them). That would mean these "cows" are women, who oppress the poor and act like drunkards. This would mean SAB is a linguistic ignoramous. "Cow" of course is an insult (like "rat" or "skunk"). And the verse addresses Samaria, which was indeed a wealthy place where the wives of wealthy husbands could and would oppress the poor, etc.
• 4:4-5 God gets sarchastic [sic], telling the Israelites, "Go ahead, do what you want." And the problem with this, beyond SAB"s political correctness, is?
• 4:6-9 God afflicts the Israelites with hunger, drought, thirst, blight, plagues and more. And he wonders why they don't turn to him? And SAB wonders why they deserve it? See here yet again.
• 4:10-11 God sends the pestilence, kills young men with the sword, makes the "stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils," and nearly destroys them (ala Sodom & Gomorrah). And yet God still wonders why the Israelites don't turn to him. Ditto. Keep in mind that Israel was warned hundreds of years in advance of the results, in Deuteronomy, if they misbehaved.
• 5:3 God threatens to diminish the Israelite's numbers and says warns [sic] that there is no refuge. Because he'll destroy those places too by "breaking out like a fire." And the problem is? See above.
• 5:14-15God says "seek good," but a few chapters ago, 3:6, and elsewhere in the Bible, God is associated with evil. See above.
• 5:16-17 When there is wailing and mourning, you'll know God's been there. See above -- just more implied "argument by outrage".
• 5:18-20 Many Christians look forward to the "day of the Lord," but according to these verses, they shouldn't. Yep, Amos was talking to Christians all right, in 800 BC or so. The usual understanding here is that the Jews welcomed that Day because they figured (as the wealthy Samaritans did) that it was only going to hit the enemy. See also here.
• 5:21-27 Despite their praise, God abhors the Israelites. Yes, after all, they were just sitting around having tea parties, yes? He is obviously hurt because they didn't offer sacrifices and more while they were wandering in the desert I have no idea where SAB gets this as a reading. It has God asking rhetorically, "Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?" (however many centuries ago that was -- and besides, who made them wander in the desert in the first place? God!). Because God's feelings are hurt, he's going to let the Babylonians plunder and kidnap his "chosen people." "Feelings" = spin-doctored way for an atheist to speak of the holiness of God. SAB thinks God should shut up and be satisfied.
• 5:22God says he won't accept animal sacrifices, but elsewhere that is all that was needed. God says this after a long list of reasons WHY He won't accept them -- and it's all in line with the Deuteronomic covenant where He said essentially the same.
• 6:1, 5 "Woe to" musicians. To musicians? The passage speaks of woe to the wealthy who are (as noted before) oppressing the poor!
• 6:8-11, 14Because Israel is pretty well off, God feels a need to teach everyone a lesson and let the kingdom be smashed. "Because" they are well off? More like, these symbols of being well off represent their transgressions -- oppressing the poor, for example, on whose backs such things were obtained. Talk about a context-devoid reading!
• 7:3, 6 Does God repent? See here.
• 7:7 God stands on a wall holding a plumb line while he talks to Amos, contrary to the many Bible verses that claim that no one has ever seen God. And yet, all Amos says he actually sees is the plumb line. So this one isn't applicable, even from here.
• 7:17 After ordered to stop prophesying, Amos gets nasty with the Amaziah the priest, telling him his wife will become a whore, his kids will be killed, and he'll die in a pagan country. And the problem with this is? Oh, of course. SAB thinks all prophets are ripoff artists and actually should shut up.
• 8:3, 8, 10 His wrath continues with lots of dead people, trembling lands, mourning and wailing. None of it deserved, as all these people were just playing backgammon and minding their own business.
• 8:14 God will eliminate anyone who prays to a different god on the day of his wrath. Of course to SAB this is absurd since all gods are equally false. You have every right to worship the 200 foot hoohoo god. Smell the begged question?
• 9:1 Amos sees God standing on the altar, again contrary to the many Bible verses that claim that no one has ever seen God. Here the link above IS applicable.
• 9:1-4 God will kill "the last of them with the sword," and any that try to escape by diving to the bottom of the sea will be bitten, at God's command, by a serpent. God will set his "eyes upon them for evil, not for good." Same as above. This is the usual ancient "trash talk" we find on monuments in Egypt, Babylon, etc. As for "evil" it's the same word discussed here.
• 9:8-10 It doesn't pay to be the "chosen people" in Amos, because God's at it again. This time, he's threatening to virtually wipe them out and kill everyone who thinks they got away. Yes, and all they were doing was waiting for a bus. Of course. Mere argument by outrage.
• 9:15 Despite this promise, the Jews have been continually uprooted and their lives disrupted over the ages. Even today, their land ownership falls into question. Typical example, actually, of prophetic hyperbole -- see here.

Obadiah

• 1, 8-9, 18 God spreads rumors, destroys wise men and understanding, and slaughters the house of Esau. The word the KJV renders "rumour" also means announcement or report. As for the wise men, they are those of Edom and were just as capable of wrongdoing and deserved punishment as anyone. SAB of course thinks they were just sitting around sipping milk when God snuck up on them.
• 1, 8-9 Dt.23:7 says, "Thou shalt not abhore an Edomite; for he is thy brother." Yet in Obadiah, the destruction of Edom and its people is commanded. Oh. As if this meant they weren't allowed to punish Edomites for crimes? That makes sense...
• 15 "For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen." If so, then it must have come and past, unnoticed, long before the birth of Christ. See here. It isn't just for one day in particular.
• 16 God will take care of the heathen. "They shall be as though they had not been." And they of course will have done nothing at all to deserve it, having been busy knitting.