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    Remember jesus’s mom was a virgin, that means jesus had no Y chromosome.

    Jesus was born female and lived her life as a man.

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        Species of sharks, snakes, lizards, wasps/bees, ants and what not do reproduce asexually sometimes. That said… Just like stoning a man for sleeping with another man, the punishment for a woman getting pregnant out of wedlock was also stoning.

        So when someone says did you have sex out of wedlock? The answer seems to be a coerced no.

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      If you want to get on that nerd shit, they don’t bother to correctly translate the bible. The singular instance of condemnation of homosexuality is better translated as a condemnation of pederasty. And we’ve already demonstrated that Christian church leaders have no problem with this.

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        I bet this argument was made at least a dozen times in church leader debates over the years: “it says when a man lays with another man, not a boy!”

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      I’m not doing the work for you, but it very clearly says if a man lies with another man like they do with a woman they should be stoned to death.

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        It’s in the old testament, in Hebrew. Saying if a man lays with a male… which my favorite part of that argument goes back to every Catholic/ Christian not being saved by God and their souls eternally left behind… which is what one might call eternal damnation.

        So they say. “Yeah we don’t like gays, or anybody who believes Jesus is God’s son”.

        Yeah let’s scrap the part about all of us being eternally damned, and let’s leave in the part about stoning people different than us.

        Oh and, let’s make up pergatory and hell so we can scare more people and make more money

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            I may be an atheist who hates organized religion, but I also read a lot about the early church because I’m a history nerd. If there ever was a historical Jesus who preached anything approaching the message he’s purported to have taught in the christian bible, it was a new covenant and a lot of the old rules were judged unnecessary.

            That said, the old testament is a hate book. Modern christianity (especially in the USA) is a hate cult. Organized religion is a cancer.

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              I love Christian history, it’s so very ridiculous.

              Did you know that “testament” meant to swear on your balls (testicles)? They would grab their junk on making an oath.

              So, we could call it Old and New “I swear on testicles this is true”.

              Also, Christians cut off their balls for many centuries.

              Christian history has a lot of foreskins and balls

              (agnostic here)

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      The First 4 references at the top, are followers of John the Baptist who got bounced from their [Jewish] community for following Jesus. The bottom group “first & second John” is actually a dude named John.

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    Also, when he said to love your neighbor as you love yourself, he wasn’t just talking about feelings or tone of voice. He was talking about the way you treat them. He insisted that people are required to provide care for others at the same level you care you provide for yourself. Food, shelter, clothing, medicine, friendship, you are responsible for all those things no less than your own.

    And who is your neighbor? He answered that, too. The people you hate. Those of other foreign places and religions. All of them. The out-groups. And however you treat them, no matter how little you think of them, that god they claim to believe in says he takes it very personally.

    Personally, I’m a fan of that radical leftist Jesus guy. It’s a shame that “Christians” are the opposite of everything he demanded and stood for.

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      Yeah.

      I don’t get obsessing over a single quote, only to miss the theme the book obsessively hammers in, which is what you said.

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    “I can love my fellow man, But I’m damned if I’ll love yours”

    Andrew eldritch - ‘I Was Wrong’

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    Let’s remember that it’s a different kind of love, a love where eternal suffering is considered appropriate, and even just, and that when a Christian says they are excited about Jesus’s return, that means that He will return at the head of a Holy Army and they will murder every non-Christian.

    The lake of blood will be 200 miles wide, up to a horse’s bridle!

    So, they “love” you, but, yeah.

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    The truth is most self-described Christians are devil worshipers bound for Hell. God made gay and trans people because God wants there to be gay and trans people. If you have a problem with that, you are violating the will of the Divine. And if you worship a god of hatred, if you embrace hate and the core of Jesus’s message? Sorry, you’re not worshiping God, you’re worshiping the Devil. The vast majority of conservative Christians are devil worshipers bound for the Pit.

    I forgive them for their sins. And God have mercy on their souls. They’re going to need it.

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    The bible is so two faced and full of contradictions. Like this:

    Psalm 139:21–22 “Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.”

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      The love one another stuff is specifically and basically exclusively a feature of the New Testament, as are all of the passages listed here. Old Testament God was much more pro religion-based genocide and enslavement. But most Christians will tell you that the New Testament/Jesus revised the old biblical laws and messages. So any “good” Christian should be leaning on it for moral guidance, instead of the books that promote vengeance, slavery, incest, rape, murder, maiming/mutilation, etc.

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        Not according to jebus!

        Matthew 5:17-18 “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.”

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          Even this one?

          2 kings chapter 2 verse 23-24

          From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

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            This one too:

            Ezekiel 23:20 NIV

            There she lusted after her lovers whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

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          It’s actually exactly this quote that they claim supports the argument that the coming of Jesus overrides the old laws. Not that they are eliminated, but that they are “fulfilled” by/through him. This is often interpreted to mean that where he specifies, they are changed or replaced through him. Such as declaring all foods clean, change from the vengeful “eye for an eye” to the pacifist “turn the other cheek”, expanded adultery to include lustful thoughts, etc.

          I’m not arguing in favor of this interpretation because it’s all fiction anyway. But that is the common Canon.

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            Stop arguing against me, per God.

            Leviticus 19:32:

            “Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the Lord.”

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      What is the context of that verse? It could be an example of how not to behave. (Do not mistake this for me defending the Bible, there is no shortage of contradictions or vile shit in it.)

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        Shut up, per God. I old.

        Leviticus 19:32 – “You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.”

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    Treat others as you would like to be treated, one of the messages from Jesus I learnt from the religious school I went to in the UK. The good Samaritan is another.

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    hasn’t anybody here grabbed a bible, looked at the first page, and read this sentence: “The waters fell upon the waters, which separated the waters from the waters.” or a variation of that?

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    If Jesus didn’t say something are they not allowed to do it?

    Jesus never said not to run people over with your car so is that ok for these people?