• Soup@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    If you hold a single text to be the very word of your god, and you use it to justify all that you do or do not do, then you must follow it to the letter or admit that you’re just a tourist. There is zero in between when you claim that the thing is pure and divine, cannot be questioned, and should be the basis for all your laws.

    Christians just keep throwing out whole chunks of the fucking thing except all the parts that they can misinterpret and mistranslate to allow them to do awful things to people they don’t like for “reasons”.

    • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
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      8 hours ago

      My favorite part is how every pastor and many laypeople will have their own particular set of interpretations. Never mind that, at most, only one of those could be fully right, and therefore the rest are doing/believing some things wrong.

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        3 hours ago

        Although everything is like that. Some people have different political, scientific, philosophical theories about a load of things. It’s not that big of a deal.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      If you hold a single text to be the very word of your god

      Which not all Christians do. There are many who believe to be the words of human beings, just divinely inspired or significant.