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Save this link for a rainy day. Just look at the index on the left hand side of each page, and take your pick.

Name: Bad Faith - Bad News About Christianity
url: [badnewsaboutchristianity.com]
Description
Uncomfortable facts about Christianity: appalling history, doubtful origins, unreliable authorities, flawed philosophy, deceptions and forgeries.

Examples:

Cildren's rights: In the past the Christian Church condoned all manner of evil done to children. It tried and executed them for witchcraft and for other offences. It saw nothing wrong in beating them frequently and severely for minor wrongdoing — even for other people's wrongdoing. It terrified them with stories of Hell. It allowed them to contract arranged marriages. It failed to speak out against child labour because it saw nothing at all wrong in the practice. For many centuries the Church opposed the education of poor children, except in the few cases where boys could be drawn into its own service. Girls were denied education altogether. In punishing children for sins they had not committed, there seems to have been almost no concept of fairness or rights. Thus, the Church made much of the concept of bastardy. [badnewsaboutchristianity.com]

Rape: If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife ...
Deuteronomy 22:28-9

This biblical passage clearly countenanced the rape of virgins, and Christians were generally prepared to follow God's guidance on the matter. If a Christian man wanted to marry an unwilling nubile woman one of the best ways to do it was to rape her and pay up. [badnewsaboutchristianity.com]

Ryo1 8 Oct 13
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As much as it is disturbing, shocking etc., I still read the contents of this website with interest in terms of history and anthropology.

Ryo1 Level 8 Oct 14, 2021
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I agree with a lot of this but always remember that there were no Christians (followers of Jesus that they called Christ) until after his death. Too many times today believers want to go back into the OT and claim those passages said certain things about Jesus, or predicted his coming, but it simply was not true. Even in Genesis 3:15 the modern believers claim this predicts Jesus as a savior. It does not. Again we have Evangelicals believing what they want to.

I had one Christian tell me that the Bible prophesied about Donald Trump. I said ok show me. The passage was a King from the west will come and do great things. I just laughed and said that is so generic it could apply to multitudes of people

Hi there. It is worrying if there are any Christians today who still behave like those did centuries ago. 😱 The Bible and other religious scriptures always fall subject to distortion and misinterpretation to serve those who are power hungry. They are best treated as materials for anthropological studies.

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There aren't many good things.

No.

yes and No, depending upon a few things....LOL.
Christians make for great entertainment for we, the non-believers,
The bible makes a great door-stop, the pages are great for use when rolling cigarettes and joints, a bible dropped on a crawling insect from approx. waist height is extremely accurate and VERY effective.
AND in DIRE emergencies, the pages from the bible are excellent substitutes for toilet paper.

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