(September 26, 2008 at 10:34 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: It's good to reveal to people how most of the OT is immoral, but I also think we need to move on a bit too because that's already obvious to a lot of Christians. There are a lot of Christians who just follow the NT.
I think what would be interesting is finding and revealing some of the immoral stuff in the NT. I see less of this...but it isn't perfectly moral (especially the cruxificion). I'd like to see more criticism of the NT's morality.
Jesus compared non-Jews to dogs and said he had only come to save Jews (Matthew 15, Mark 7) so clear example of racism
Jesus cursed the figtree when it was out of season (Mark 11:12) clear example of being a bad-tempere grumpy bastard
Jesus says you have to love him more than your family (Matthew 10:37) clear example of asking way too much of people
Jesus exorts people to cut off their limbs rather than let their limbs cause them to sin and thus damnation. (matthew 18:8) Well, it isn't our hands or feet that cause us to sin. clear example of crap hyperbole except that there are examples of deranged people doing just this.
Jesus holds up the entire OT and all it says, including the killing of babies and anything else that is crap in the OT
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." (Matthew 5:17)
Jesus sends evil spirits out of a man and into a herd of pigs. the pigs rush off a cliff into the sea and die. Tough shit for the owner of the pigs (Matthew 8:30-33)
Jesus tells a disciple in a most uncompassionate manner that he can't bury his parents (Matthew 8:21-22)
Jesus says he has come to cause destruction and strife, not peace, and to divide families (Matthew 10:34-36)
OK, so that's just SOME of the crap stuff Jesus said and did. Just off the top of my head. I haven't even started on the stuff the disciples and Paul got up to in Acts and some of Paul's hate filled stuff in his epistles.
'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? Jer 8:8
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
