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The only problem is that the old testament has lots of problematic things in it, and it is used as “evidence” for the claims in the new, and the character of Jesus is made to say that “not one jot or tittle” thing.
The new actually has a few things that are not exactly perfect, either…but it doesn’t really matter, terrible people that claim they are xtians clearly don’t care. They are told to keep their religion in the closet in the bible, and here they are, insisting their religion should be not only out of their closet, but running our government and they have the “right” to rub their religiosity all over other people that don’t really care about their little book club and want nothing to do with it.
OK first, none of the things listed in the comment I was replying to were contemporary with the OT that you are bringing up, so we’re getting even further off the rails here
And second, how people behave today is not the same as how people behaved 2000 years ago, which is also probably not exactly as described by the people who wrote those texts that have been retold and transcribed so many times over so many years by so many peoples. “Zealots of a different age,” and all that. The text is there, scroll up.
Edit: and seriously, have you read any other mythologies before? Seriously, the Bible isn’t even that salacious in terms of the old stories about the shenanigans the gods would get up to.
The only problem is that the old testament has lots of problematic things in it, and it is used as “evidence” for the claims in the new, and the character of Jesus is made to say that “not one jot or tittle” thing.
The new actually has a few things that are not exactly perfect, either…but it doesn’t really matter, terrible people that claim they are xtians clearly don’t care. They are told to keep their religion in the closet in the bible, and here they are, insisting their religion should be not only out of their closet, but running our government and they have the “right” to rub their religiosity all over other people that don’t really care about their little book club and want nothing to do with it.
OK first, none of the things listed in the comment I was replying to were contemporary with the OT that you are bringing up, so we’re getting even further off the rails here
And second, how people behave today is not the same as how people behaved 2000 years ago, which is also probably not exactly as described by the people who wrote those texts that have been retold and transcribed so many times over so many years by so many peoples. “Zealots of a different age,” and all that. The text is there, scroll up.
Edit: and seriously, have you read any other mythologies before? Seriously, the Bible isn’t even that salacious in terms of the old stories about the shenanigans the gods would get up to.