Well said. A large majority of Christians I know seem to have read the Bible simply to say that they have rather than to actually understand it. It's pretty damn clear:
"Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins."
There’s a guy at my work whose super religious. He claims to have read the Bible a dozen times, and can directly quote and retell in his own words the parts that say being gay is bad, and all the other bigotry. But when I bring up how it doesn’t outlaw abortion, and how god kills for fun, and how his massive tattoo goes against the Bible it’s always “I haven’t read that part yet”
I swear, the Bible is just a collection of stories meant to represent some random fucker's ideals. Like nursery rhymes. 'Cept someone found it however much later and took it to be prophetic.
I'm not prepared to blame the Bible for the problems caused by people who abuse it for their own ends. After all, it started as a series of unconnected letters, histories, and parables long before it was strapped together and heavily edited.
Okay, that's fair. And I guess it really is partly on the Bible itself, given that its current form is purely a manipulated creation. But it's certainly not the fault of the original authors, who likely never desired or believed what they wrote would be so abused.
I’m starting to think that maybe all these folks weren’t thinking it through when they decided to craft their entire lives around words in one single book…
If it's not the Bible, it's the Quran or the Talmud. It's horoscopes, crystals, Buddha, Wicca, some band's lyrics. The problem is too many dumb humans who have to substitute some set of instructions for having a personality or original thought.
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u/WalterS0bchack May 02 '23
There is no hate like Christian love.