religion

[Thebrownblob]

think chris hedges said christianity is selective literalism because theres terrible parts in the book like genocide. always good to hear atheist @Box Ox dissing islam when of course christianity has genocide.

we take what we like from it and leave out what we dont.

Not really. The Bible simply records the truth about humanity. It doesn’t sugarcoat. It plainly explains most of the “heroes” in the Bible were also human and made many mistakes.

 

[oldngray]

Not really. The Bible simply records the truth about humanity. It doesn’t sugarcoat. It plainly explains most of the “heroes” in the Bible were also human and made many mistakes.

The "genocide" is from the Old Testament and not done by Christians.

 

[rickyb]

Not really. The Bible simply records the truth about humanity. It doesn’t sugarcoat. It plainly explains most of the “heroes” in the Bible were also human and made many mistakes.

i would say the matrix does the same. i like that.

apparently 1 in 5 christian americans follow the old testament.

 

[Thebrownblob]

i would say the matrix does the same. i like that.

apparently 1 in 5 christian americans follow the old testament.

You mean, read the Old Testament? Would be hard to follow it and be a Christian since Christ wasn’t in the Old Testament.

 

[rickyb]

You mean, read the Old Testament? Would be hard to follow it and be a Christian since Christ wasn’t in the Old Testament.

yea i saw something about that too.

 

[Thebrownblob]

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yea i saw something about that too.

There’s some Christians that weren’t familiar with the Bible? Lol ok

 

[oldngray]

You mean, read the Old Testament? Would be hard to follow it and be a Christian since Christ wasn’t in the Old Testament.

There were foreshadowings of Christ but nothing directly.

 

[Thebrownblob]

There were foreshadowings of Christ but nothing directly.

Correct couldn’t really be a Christian before Christ.

 

[Box Ox]

apparently 1 in 5 christian americans follow the old testament.

You mean, read the Old Testament?

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yea i saw something about that too.

“Preferring” the Old Testament might just mean they like the stories in it more.

 

[oldngray]

“Preferring” the Old Testament might just mean they like the stories in it more.

a lot of the Old Testament is historical

 

[newfie]

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yea i saw something about that too.

either they didnt understand the bible or the question was phrased in a funky way

 

[rickyb]

"As for the question of God’s true nature, there are many substantive contradictions. Is God a loving or a vengeful God? In some sections of the Bible, vicious acts of vengeance, includingthegenocidalexterminationofopposingtribesandnations, appear to be blessed by God. Godturns ontheEgyptians and transforms the Nile into blood so the Egyptians will suffer from thirst— and then sends swarms of locusts and flies to torture them, along
with hail, fire and thunder from the heavens to destroy all plants and trees. To liberate the children of Israel, God orders the firstborn in every Egyptian household killed so all will know “that the Lord makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel” (Exodus 11:7).2 The killing does not cease until “there was not a house where one was not dead” (Exodus 12:30). Amid the carnage God orders Moses to loot all the clothing, jewelry, gold and silver from the Egyptian homes (Exodus 12:35–36). God looks at the devastation and says, “I have made sport of the Egyptians” (Exodus 10:2). While the Exodus story fueled the hopes and dreams of oppressed Jews, and later African Americans in the bondage of slavery, it also has been used to foster religious chauvinism" - chris hedges, american fascists