You talking Old or New Testament? Because most of the arguments people seem to have with Christianity (from my experience, at least) come from OT rules/etc that became obsolete due to Jesus.
you grew your church at the tip of a spear, and at the sharp end of a sword. you made demons during the inquisitions. you made partners with the nazis. christians. don’t make me fucking laugh.
So you’re talking more modern history. I don’t agree with the way Christianity has been forced on people throughout history. I don’t condone the inquisitions, etc.
It saddens me, honestly, at how far from true Christianty most publically open “Christians” are. Forcing your beliefs on others, ridiculing those who don’t believe the same as you, and not treating all of humanity with the respect and love the deserve are not actions of a true believer in Christ.
And I pose to you all those evil things are CENTRAL to the actions of a true believer in Christ, as they’ve proven to be, for the last 1700 years, that any fantasy about love, forgiveness, acceptance and peace is the fairy tale Christians tell themselves while they’re forcefully decimating anyone that doesn’t believe what they do
I like to point out that one of the first lessons the Bible teaches the reader is one of hierarchy and inherent supremacy over others. Eve is lesser to Adam, as all women should be to all men. Man is the dominator of the land, bending nature to his whims. All men are to worship a supreme being because he’s bigger, stronger, more powerful, and these are respected traits held by any authority. It’s baked into the values that some of us should be supreme to others, and the inherent violence of this philosophy can be used to justify wars and genocide, as has happened time and again.
Christianity is only good if you use confirmation bias to pick out the parts you like, but the whole text creates drones and fascists by design. I believe in God, but I would never in my life subscribe to Christian beliefs (not even getting into the open hostility the church has held against my particular section of belief throughout history that persists to this day).
I’d like to add that God, being omnipotent, knew they’d break the “rules,” and went ahead punishing them just the same. Seems to me like the punishment was the point all along.
I agree that basically all religion is bad, but for what it’s worth, in the story Eve knows she shouldn’t eat the fruit, and she isn’t tricked, she’s tempted. Those are different things. It doesn’t make god any less of a jerk, but mistakes like that can sometimes make people disregard a whole argument because they think you don’t know what you’re talking about.
the lesson is that God is arbitrary and can change the rules on you at any time if he feels like fucking with you. And you are expected to say “Thank you Sir, may I have another?”
Checks out if you define “God” as “the universe, time, all of existence”. Probably one of the more useful and realistic lessons in the old testament.
I’m sorry, are you responding to me? The dude said “true Christians”. Are you saying there are or there aren’t? Haha 🤦🏻♂️ What is happening here?
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For some reason, only part of your comment was displayed on my side.
Still, get right off my back with this strawman bullshit. I didn’t say any of the shit you’re putting in my mouth. I called out the use of the term “true Christianity” in that guy’s comment.
All that nonsense you’re arguing against came with you to this place.
Jesus explicitly said He was not making any rules obsolete.
What He did was tell and show that OT laws are supposed to be read from the perspective that they are meant to help and protect the weak and “lesser”.
And the OT is a history of God’s love for humanity as much as the NT.
I was thinking more about the things such as animal sacrifices and temple rituals, which were law prior to Jesus. But he did say he came to fulfill the Law, thereby making those practices obsolete since He became the ultimate sacrifice.
You talking Old or New Testament? Because most of the arguments people seem to have with Christianity (from my experience, at least) come from OT rules/etc that became obsolete due to Jesus.
Unless you’re talking more modern history…?
you grew your church at the tip of a spear, and at the sharp end of a sword. you made demons during the inquisitions. you made partners with the nazis. christians. don’t make me fucking laugh.
So you’re talking more modern history. I don’t agree with the way Christianity has been forced on people throughout history. I don’t condone the inquisitions, etc.
It saddens me, honestly, at how far from true Christianty most publically open “Christians” are. Forcing your beliefs on others, ridiculing those who don’t believe the same as you, and not treating all of humanity with the respect and love the deserve are not actions of a true believer in Christ.
And I pose to you all those evil things are CENTRAL to the actions of a true believer in Christ, as they’ve proven to be, for the last 1700 years, that any fantasy about love, forgiveness, acceptance and peace is the fairy tale Christians tell themselves while they’re forcefully decimating anyone that doesn’t believe what they do
I like to point out that one of the first lessons the Bible teaches the reader is one of hierarchy and inherent supremacy over others. Eve is lesser to Adam, as all women should be to all men. Man is the dominator of the land, bending nature to his whims. All men are to worship a supreme being because he’s bigger, stronger, more powerful, and these are respected traits held by any authority. It’s baked into the values that some of us should be supreme to others, and the inherent violence of this philosophy can be used to justify wars and genocide, as has happened time and again.
Christianity is only good if you use confirmation bias to pick out the parts you like, but the whole text creates drones and fascists by design. I believe in God, but I would never in my life subscribe to Christian beliefs (not even getting into the open hostility the church has held against my particular section of belief throughout history that persists to this day).
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I’d like to add that God, being omnipotent, knew they’d break the “rules,” and went ahead punishing them just the same. Seems to me like the punishment was the point all along.
Very love. Wow.
I agree that basically all religion is bad, but for what it’s worth, in the story Eve knows she shouldn’t eat the fruit, and she isn’t tricked, she’s tempted. Those are different things. It doesn’t make god any less of a jerk, but mistakes like that can sometimes make people disregard a whole argument because they think you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Checks out if you define “God” as “the universe, time, all of existence”. Probably one of the more useful and realistic lessons in the old testament.
No true scotch egg or some shit
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I’m sorry, are you responding to me? The dude said “true Christians”. Are you saying there are or there aren’t? Haha 🤦🏻♂️ What is happening here?
Edit:
For some reason, only part of your comment was displayed on my side.
Still, get right off my back with this strawman bullshit. I didn’t say any of the shit you’re putting in my mouth. I called out the use of the term “true Christianity” in that guy’s comment.
All that nonsense you’re arguing against came with you to this place.
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Jesus explicitly said He was not making any rules obsolete.
What He did was tell and show that OT laws are supposed to be read from the perspective that they are meant to help and protect the weak and “lesser”.
And the OT is a history of God’s love for humanity as much as the NT.
I was thinking more about the things such as animal sacrifices and temple rituals, which were law prior to Jesus. But he did say he came to fulfill the Law, thereby making those practices obsolete since He became the ultimate sacrifice.
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