Except all of those examples are from the Old Testament, which most Christians tend to pick and choose from, largely believing that it’s effectively been wiped away by the New Testament. They treat it mostly as historical text about the lead up to Jesus’s arrival, generally not as any active set of laws or rules. But it is very much a pick and choose source of hypocrisy for what different Christians consider as “still counting”. Tons of examples like this to garbage person using it to justify their bullshit.
Also worth noting that the Christian Old Testament is from the same source text as the Jewish Tanakh, except that Jewish interpretations/translations are based off older material/translations closer to the original “source” text where Christian ones tend to be based off early translations into languages like Greek and Latin, and the Christian take on it reorganizes it roughly chronologically.
All this to say, most Christians see this shit as the horrid backwards ancient shit it is, and these examples are mostly present in Jewish canon as well despite the ever present edgy internet atheist brigade’s hyperfixation with exclusively taking on Christianity.
Still awful, still worth calling out, but being more informed helps everyone make better criticisms.
largely believing that it’s effectively been wiped away by the New Testament
Until you ask them about gay people, and then they love to bring out some Old Testament verses…
Nah. You don’t get to say “this is my infallible holy book that is never wrong” and then clarify that half of it doesn’t count … unless you want it to count.
Theologically speaking, he’s not wrong:
Except all of those examples are from the Old Testament, which most Christians tend to pick and choose from, largely believing that it’s effectively been wiped away by the New Testament. They treat it mostly as historical text about the lead up to Jesus’s arrival, generally not as any active set of laws or rules. But it is very much a pick and choose source of hypocrisy for what different Christians consider as “still counting”. Tons of examples like this to garbage person using it to justify their bullshit.
Also worth noting that the Christian Old Testament is from the same source text as the Jewish Tanakh, except that Jewish interpretations/translations are based off older material/translations closer to the original “source” text where Christian ones tend to be based off early translations into languages like Greek and Latin, and the Christian take on it reorganizes it roughly chronologically.
All this to say, most Christians see this shit as the horrid backwards ancient shit it is, and these examples are mostly present in Jewish canon as well despite the ever present edgy internet atheist brigade’s hyperfixation with exclusively taking on Christianity.
Still awful, still worth calling out, but being more informed helps everyone make better criticisms.
Until you ask them about gay people, and then they love to bring out some Old Testament verses…
Nah. You don’t get to say “this is my infallible holy book that is never wrong” and then clarify that half of it doesn’t count … unless you want it to count.
And trying to put the 10 commandments every fucking place.