Core Message Of Christianity Isn't One Of Love

[robvalue]

The "love they neighbour" bit, in the comparatively tiny New Testament, is the equivalent of father saying the odd "kind" thing now and then while beating the shit out of you the rest of the time.

A comprehensive reading of the bible, keeping in mind all the injunctions on who you can kill and why, suggests that "thy neighbor," specifically refers to people that share the precise same subset of traits that the christian god finds acceptable, and that the hidden corollary of "love thy neighbor" is that everyone else is to be conquered or slaughtered in keeping with the execution orders in the rest of the book.

You're totally right. Considering Jesus is God (usually) and he made it clear his old rules stand, the message is really "love those in your own group". God has no problem with you doing whatever the fuck you want to anyone not bowing down to worship him.

It's good that people completely misinterpret this by taking it out of context. It's kind of hilarious to me that Christians have to draw a circle round this one passage and then just jettison the whole of the rest of the bible, pretending it all never happened, in order to arrive at a very obvious and unoriginal basis for morality.