(December 28, 2015 at 12:05 am)Sara0229 Wrote: I find reading about religions fascinating, not sure why cause I think they do more harm than good, but anyway I was reading passages from the OT that say you can't do all this stuff and talked about killing babies, stoning children, killing nonbelievers.....The whole purpose of the Bible and all other "holy books" is to indoctrinate people into complete belief and obedience without exception. When the designated deity says to slaughter someone for a silly offense the believer is expected to believe and obey without a second thought. The believer is not supposed to think for himself and question. He is simply supposed to believe and obey. Governments follow this same playbook and use it to control their herds of idiots as well. People love to be told what to do and what to think. They will usually follow anyone who acts like he knows what he's doing even if by doing so it costs them their lives.
So I was talking to a Lutheran about all of this and as the conversation went on I just became more and more confused. So if the NT trumps the OT then why is the OT in the bible? I mean why have all that in there if you don't have to abide by it? You just ignore it because you know killing babies is wrong? But God told you to do it and it's the word of God right? He told me he thought that the 10 commandments are very important but they're in the OT. So I guess one of the commandments says not to kill but then god tells you all these reasons that you should kill people in the same OT.
I'm so confused I just had to stop the conversation because it was making my brain hurt. I like to understand others points of views but I can make any sense out of all this.
Maybe someone can explain this to me better. What is the difference between the OT and NT as far as what you should follow and what you shouldn't?
-Sara0229
Even the Bible says that people are stupid shits who should know better than to do most of the things that the Bible tells them to do.
