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Barrage of hate from far-right Trumpists to Sikh prayer at Republican convention
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I’d be interested to know what you think of as “vile garbage” in the New Testament.
I consider people who worship Trump like he’s an antichrist to be fake Christians. Non-believer grifters who wrap themselves in the Bible so they can fleece people of their morals and money I would also label “fake Christians”.
All the stuff about slaves honoring their masters, women being submissive and subjugated by their husbands, the deferred justice of heaven to ensure the status quo, the recommendation to turn against your family for the pursuit of Christ (often described in violent terms). There's a lot of bullshit in Corinthians and revelations. Not as terrible as the old testament, for sure, but "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’" and "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." Don't really inspire confidence that he's any different in believe the other detestable garbage in the old testament.
But whatever, I don't really care. It's all a fairy tale anyway. At best we can use the Bible as commentary on the time when it was written, set in a time before. It's like the X-men. An allegory for modern problems given setting that would be familiar to those people reading it in their day. Not so much a moral guideline, as a way of understanding how people viewed the world in ancient times.
And I've never met a Christian who wasn't trying to sell me something. Be that either an actual grift or on their own piety.
You really drew a blank when thinking about that? Like you've never read it or you think everything it says is moral?