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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bonefish who wrote (887535)	9/13/2015 7:54:30 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575341

cj lacks all kinds of knowledge

To: Bonefish who wrote (887535)	9/13/2015 9:49:14 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By tejek Respond to of 1575341

I used to be a Christian. Lutheran, actually. The Old Testament was considered to be fulfilled prophesy. So was really just a historical document. Martin Luther's focus was on the New Testament. Which is a very different document. His Little Catechism is solely focused on the New Testament and the teachings of Christ. Now I know that fundies seem to like the Old Testament more. Probably because it appeals to their inner authoritarian. Jesus was just too soft. All about forgiveness and turning of the cheek and being meek. The eye for an eye and bringing down divine retribution upon their enemies is what gets them hard. The problem, though is they want to pick and choose what they will take from the Old Testament in particular. I don't see a lot of animal sacrifices, for example. Nor the dietary laws. Lots of rules about those. About the only thing Jesus had to say about homosexuals was that they shouldn't marry women. Y'all seem to like the gay hatred from the Old, though. And then there is the shit y'all just made up. Like the stuff about abortion and birth control. Both have been going on for thousands of years. Yet neither the Old or the New Testament said anything about those practices. That came about because of the population crash during and after the Black Plagues. The nobility got upset because the remaining peasants started to demand better compensation. They were getting uppity and didn't know their place. The nobles tried wage control measures, but sooner or later the nobles cheated because the only alternative was to do the work themselves. So the nobles whined to the Pope. Who had the "revelation" that God realized his mistake in letting people control their fertility. It was far from the first time the Papacy was bought. I don't lack biblical knowledge. Granted, I never studied the Old Testament all that much. No real need. Besides, it is tedious because it contradicts itself many times. But I read the New Testament several times.