(March 9, 2016 at 3:59 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: Cathy is NOT a pet that needs protecting. I think that she's handled her own pretty damn well considering.
That's not the point. The point is people conflating what evengelicals believe with what mainstream catholics or protestants believe. Evangelicals, for the most part, take the bible very or totally literal, whereas mainstream christians don't put that much stock into it.
While I agree that the OT is abysmal in many places, it's as useless to confornt CL with it as asking Drippy for swearing allegiance to the pope. Catholics don't subscribe to the OT anymore. They don't throw it out of the window since the whole Jesus story wouldn't make much sense without it, but the contradiction behind it is another debate to be had.
Believe me, when going to catholic mass, it's very easy to ignore the horror show that makes up the OT. Sermons and readings are entirely based on the NT - as opposed to evangelical sermons, who put quite a lot of stock in hateful messages to frighten their parishoners.