Seems to me most Christians take the Bible out of context. They treat it like trail mix, keep the parts they like and throw out what they don't like.

It is easy to take some parts out of context. Not everything heinous that’s written about in the Old Testament is necessarily commanded or even condoned by the abrahamic god for example; but enough of it is to still make the same point lol.

@PalacinkyPDX I'm old enough remember the early days of backpacking with just two ingredients: good ol' raisins and peanuts (GORP). Today's trail mix is way too sugary for me.

@Wurlitzer An interpretation that I've read is that going by old testament laws is basically saying that the sacrifice on the cross wasn't good enough to forgive those old sins. So basically if you accept Jesus as your lord and savior, old testament stuff kinda goes out the window. And yet Christians still love to cite Leviticus.

@Darla_Ann yeah Old Testament law is only applied literally by Orthodox Jews n even they have a couple extra books of clarification n detailing and updating n backpedaling to go along with it lol. Except when it comes to examples that are convenient like homosexuality of course. When it’s time to wear mixed fibers to shrimpfest with your tattoo of the cross after church it’s all good though.

@Wurlitzer exactly!

@Dave75 Indeed.

it is a bunch of short fictions stories no one ever bothered to proof read. There are to passages one says you have to hate your family to follow Jesus. Then another one says you have to love Jesus more than your family. Niether I can agree with!

@Dave75 except for the pornography, like Lot sleeping with his daughters, and Sarah being "loaned out" several times to gain flocks & grazing rights for hubby (i.e. her pimp), and David getting Uriah killed so he could screw Bathsheba, oh, and The Song of Solomon....shall I go on.

@Dave75 and so&so begat whatshisface, and whathisface begat whozit, and whozit begat...

@Notlost ooooohh, the juicy bits.......

I was going to say the same thing.
And add that studies have also shown that most 'believers' when asked what the ten commandments are, a huge percent don't know them all.

@AwarenessNow I can understand Jewish as being high there one the list. The torrah is essentially the old testament. And that is where the ten commandments are.

further disillusioned or disbelief more deeply affirmed? lol

@chalupacabre Works both ways!

Well said and I mean both you and Asimov

Same! I wasn’t never raised in a super religious home, but I decided to educate myself about the Bible so I would have the knowledge I needed to debate these Christians when they would threaten me with Hell while arming myself with the proper knowledge. . For one the Jews were first and they didn’t believe in Hell and it also wasn’t in the Old Testament. It wasn’t until Jesus himself came into the New Testament when Hell was mentioned. Christians came along and formed their own religion.

When I was very young I noticed (mandatory) church lessons did not reflect reality so I figured Church (religion) was nothing more then adults trying to control children with really stupid stories. It wasn't until I was in my later 20's that I realized many adults actually believes the BS they were trying to sell us. That was a very scary (as in profoundly sad) day.

@EmeraldJewel and then the Christians that did not like what certain Christians believed, broke away from their church to start another church based on their interpretation. The biggest example to me was with the Church of England; the king wanted a divorce but the Roman Catholic Church would not allow it. The “devine right of kings” was sufficient to allow him to do so.

I was sent to Catholic school & they do not encourage bible reading. The church also insists that followers not interpret the meaning of anything in the bible, but only accept the church's interpretation.

Right! Many atheist or agnostics do know more. It’s actually pretty sad.

@EmeraldJewel That's the difference between thinking for oneself vs blindly accepting doctrine from a man on an alter.

Good observation. During my "Conformation" class I made it a game - we were assigned topics to research so I would read the bible to find nonsense and I always found multiple contradictions in their "perfect holy book" leaving our weekly discussions with a "well that doesn't make sense so I guess I don't know". My favorite was the last day of conformation class then our instructor told us about the holy trinity. I replied. "That's just stupid." he responded, "I know but that's what they want us to teach you."

@NoMagicCookie Yeah, none of it makes any sense and they have a hard time coming up with explanations.

been told from birth scared of the truth. The bible even tells you the truth will set you free of the slave chains of gods and religions.

@benhmiller hahaha! How ironic!

Right!

Not necessarily the conclusion to be drawn. There is the matter of cognitive dissonance & confirmation bias (wishful thinking) that comes into play. These quite often totally bypass our reasoning centers.

I agree, there is simply put that there is nothing better than experiance. I don't care what school one has come from.

I honestly think that one could gain some morality from the works of Theodor Greisle than the bible.

Lol good one!!!

I may want to use your quote, it's the best summation of the religious right I've come across in a while! Great quote!

Very boring indeed ! I’d rather read the Twilight series one book by one before reading that!