I was curious because as an atheist it struck me as odd to see a self professed Christian admit that there are parts of the Bible that are a bit rough to modern moral sensibilities.
I have read the b...
Most of the bible is fabricated in ways that would offend modern sensibilities. I say that as a Christian, and I don't care if the whole crowd of pious imbeciles disagree. It was written by men, edited by men, whole sections added and removed, it plagiarizes other religions in some parts (especially Genesis), and then on top of all that, its not even understood, so what was writing all that even for...?
We don't need the OT at all, and its totally illogical to begin with. The NT is as fabricated as anyone could dare to imagine. Most of it was only even written as a response to Marcion's "heresy" - which, depending on who you ask could be anything, but it appears to me his real crime was putting a bunch of texts together into a Bible. Marcion did a bible, oh no, gotta do another bible to refute Marcion... Only maybe 1/3 of Paul's epistles can be linked to previous writing, and even that is still not source material.
It doesn't serve anyone to pretend this isn't the case. You can't be "more Christian" than another, in any case, but certainly not by believing falsehoods that masquerade as piety.
We don't need the OT at all, and its totally illogical to begin with. The NT is as fabricated as anyone could dare to imagine. Most of it was only even written as a response to Marcion's "heresy" - which, depending on who you ask could be anything, but it appears to me his real crime was putting a bunch of texts together into a Bible. Marcion did a bible, oh no, gotta do another bible to refute Marcion... Only maybe 1/3 of Paul's epistles can be linked to previous writing, and even that is still not source material.
It doesn't serve anyone to pretend this isn't the case. You can't be "more Christian" than another, in any case, but certainly not by believing falsehoods that masquerade as piety.
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