People are fond of taking those parts out of context
To be fair, it's hard to put a book in context when it's not arranged according to context, but text length.
Hence, the reason I favor Christianity as by far the lesser of two evils, especially considering that Jesus didn't kill anyone or order anyone to be put to death!
Actually, I would argue that at least Muslims are honest. Christianity does so much white-washing the bleach is eating away at the surface. I would rather know precisely what a person thinks of me than a person who claims God loves me while they really want me to burn in hell.
Jesus did away with all of that!
God apologized, sort of, after the Flood, which is in the OT. After Jesus supposedly fixed everything, God goes, "You know what? I kinda wanna kill off everyone anyway, and I'll have to use things other than water because I made that stupid rainbow thing the gays just love, but My point is, screw Earth."
The belief in the exclusiveness of one religion, church, or variation of the above encourages this darker side of humanity..
Indeed. A religion should have humility, and not that false humility like some of the apostles or Paul: "I'm just a regular dude, but please hang on to my every word and never question me."
I have a theory that makes me sad, having seen evidence that if you are a ******* and become religious, you are then a religious *******. If you are a nice person and become religious then you are a religious nice person. We make and change religion to suit ourselves. The idea that religion makes us nice is fantasy.
Yup. Religion isn't a transformative thing. It's just a window into your soul. You go with the religion (or stop going to one) depending on the nature of your soul. People who claim to have become better people thanks to religion were already wanting to change anyway. Religion never changes the people who don't want to.
I just had to say hello. I've never heard religious followers described as "theological fandoms." Very apt.
I came up with that all by mahself. Dur.
I was inspired by watching fans eat each other over the same kinds of things:
You're not a true fan if you don't buy all the merch.
You're not a true fan if you don't watch every movie or episode or read every book.
You're not a true fan because I ship these characters and even though the canon clearly doesn't want them to be together, I will continue to ship them until the day I die and that means I'm right.
(On a sadder note, now we can add: If the creators write something we don't agree with, we should threaten them with death. [see Captain America, Star Wars (dear GOD, Star Wars)])
Do you know if Jesus was a bit barbaric and that they just dress him up nice for the Bible; like they do with models and movie stars?
Definitely. They claim he is sinless and yet:
Is racist (is shocked that gentiles can be faithful, even though as God he should know this, and even as just a man, was supposedly a scriptural expert and God allied with gentiles in the scriptures at least a couple of times).
Violates the Sabbath on purpose (yes, I know he was "making a point", but he still broke something out of the Big Ten).
Dishonors his parents (how did he grow to adulthood since the rules state to kill bratty kids?).
Is hypocritical (rarely does the stuff he asks us to do).
Assaults people with a whip.
Indirectly causes a Roman crackdown that kills lots and lots of innocent people.
Is selfish (we never hear from most of the people he helped ever again, almost like they were reverse redshirts who were only there to make the main characters look good).
Went to hell because he forgot he said people who call others "fools" will go to hell and kept doing so (if what he said is true, then several biblical authors and God Himself are also burning for eternity -- whoops).
You will find plenty of Christian countries that are democracies.
Israel is supposedly a democracy but we all know that's a farce. The US sucks the tit of Christian conservatism so hard the boobs have deflated.
Jesus is presented as a very reasonable fellow with whom even Pontius Pilot could find no quarrel.
Except it's a lie. Pilate killed him. All the Jewish drama was an attempt to be anti-Semitic because by the point the texts were written, gentiles were running the show and we can't have gentiles be the bad guy, right?
Jesus, remember, said, "Pay unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's." This establishes a clear distinction between the state and the church.
Except for the interpretation that Jesus knew everything belonged to God and he was just being a troll to avoid being shot right then and there by Romans.
This is why Muslim nations are so often theocracies.
Again, I live in the US. We are desperately trying to be a theocracy with a democratic whitewash, like Israel is right now. At least the Muslims are honest. We do evil things with a smiley pasted on.
Jesus did away with garbage like stoning adulterers.
He didn't, though. His point was that she can't be the town bicycle if they all hadn't ridden her. It was the hypocrisy he was against. Also, Jesus wasn't in the government, so he didn't stop squat officially. It kept going while he was alive and after he died. Christians don't seem to mind killing people for "love" either:
http://listverse.com/2014/04/01/10-love-stories-that-ended-in-murder/
and in this century don't legally torture and kill people for not being Christian.
The. United. States. Do you WATCH the news?
Drinking wine is not Barbaric.
Muhammad was an extremist, radical, fanatic, bloodthirsty terrorist, who committed countless vicious sadistic crimes against humanity!
Didn't you just praise him for banning alcohol? How can you say drinking wine is not barbaric?
I'm talking about 21st century.
IIRC, Guantanamo is still open. We don't even care if they're Christian. We just slap kids in concentration camps and sell them to sex slavers. "For freedom".
Technically, he did for a little bit before dropping it and someone else had to do it.
In my country they don't stone you to death in public.
In my country, we may not use rocks, but we'll sure as hell use everything else. Guns are more important than people to the extent that when school shooting survivors -- KIDS -- protest being, you know, KILLED, I've seen people comment that the kids should be killed for daring to protest guns. Or raped. Or something else. I get the news is depressing and someone might want to avoid the news, but Jesus Christ -- we are doing some SOUL-CRUSHING crap.
A female friend of mine is from Iran. She escaped from there. She told me "it was not so nice", to say it nice. Heaven in Europe.
I was going to say, "Hope she didn't move to the US". The planet has even put out tourist warnings because we're just so trigger happy right now. My country won't be satisfied until every bullet has been shot.
I mean, I live in a country where a woman wearing a flag from a territory owned by the US is harassed and threatened, while we do NOTHING for everyone wearing CSA flags, the existence of which is about treason to the US because whites are superior and yet so snowflaky that they can't handle other people existing in a nation that didn't originally belong to them anyway.
Arguably they are being tortured for being terrorists or fighting American War on terror.
But we're calling everyone non-white "terrorists". It doesn't matter what religion they are. I'm in more danger statistically speaking from fellow white people, ESPECIALLY WASPs, and yet my country wants me to believe brown people are the cause of all my problems.
American government doesn't see being non-christian as crime, otherwise we would bulldoze every mosque in America!
And you don't think we don't? Or even prevent them from having a permit to build one in the first place?
