(August 15, 2017 at 10:32 am)Dropship Wrote:(August 12, 2017 at 5:56 am)Die Atheistin Wrote: ..Are some theists afraid of atheists?..
Well I'm afraid of women and the police, but afraid of atheists?- Nah..
It's just that atheists have let themselves be put off Jesus by the false crackpots of Organised Religion, and true christians want to help them see that Jesus really ROCKS!
I mean, Jesus told the snooty priests that they were full of shit and that prostitutes were better than them, so what on earth is there to dislike about the guy?
Um no, sorry, women in that book were not written in to be treated equally, they were written in to make the male heros look good.
You talk about the prostitutes but Eve was scapegoated in the first story so.
And again, it is just a story in any case. Girls/women in all of antiquity even in polytheism were treated like property to be bartered between families. Now, not that a real Mary ever existed, but she would have been bartered like cattle to the family of Joseph and would have been between the ages of 9-14 years old, whenever the girl had her first period.
The real reason today that we don't treat prostitutes like shit, isn't anything biblical, but because they are human beings, not property. The story back then wasn't conveying anything but "don't hurt property", just like wives and daughters back then. That story had nothing to do with female equality.
And as far as tipping over the change cart story, again, you don't need a old mythological story to say, "don't be greedy."
The bible reflects the social ideas of that time, it has no modern barring on our modern western morality.
