(October 20, 2018 at 6:16 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(October 19, 2018 at 4:45 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Really? You think if Christians read lines from Bible like
Exodus 22:28-30
“You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me. You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
they would stop being Christian? Or would they still support it like they do Trump no matter what crimes and lies he commits?
Oh that is easily explained. "giving" your firstborn to god means that your son will be coerced into becoming a priest. As a born and raised crapolic, I actually had that pressure. Or your daughter to be a nun for the same reasons.
I think I understand that pressure, but I am not willing to post. It would be rather offensive. Even my holy RCC parents recognised it before they passed. That was a surprise to me, but they did. Fair play to them.
Just like Levicitus 20:13 "If a man lies with another man he should be stoned."
is finally interpreted correctly by Canada after legalizing gay marriage and marijuana as well because now you are legally allowed to get stoned while having gay sex.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
