RE: Is Christianity Inherently Supportive Of Slavery And Misogyny?
August 4, 2021 at 3:49 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2021 at 3:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's not hard to understand or support any number of different christianities. I prefer those christianities which seek to repair the religion through reform. I prefer a christianity, for example, that disagrees with the plain contempt of women throughout magic book. That disagrees with gods taste for slaves and slaving, again throughout.
I'd suggest that you're not reading anything which disagrees with your personal and contemporary ethics the way I do, or even the way it was written, in magic book. That it doesn't start and end in leviticus. What else would a person who disagrees with magic book about slaves and women do? What else could they do, beyond the pure memory hole - which is evergreen.
There are tons of ways to accomplish whatever personal curation the religion might require for a given individual. None of them are true to the faith, but all are true to the faithful. My personal fave is a christianity that doesn't rely on magic book in any way. That doesn't chain itself to the superstitions of the authors or the politics of it's construction or the ethics of some past society. When confronted with silly shit in magic book, a person who holds such a christian faith can simply shrug their shoulders and say - yeah, it says alot of shit - and neither of us believes all of it.
It's a christianity with the benefit of being completely honest, without any requirement to tie ourselves into argumentative knots, this thread being a running demonstration of the futility of that latter approach to christian apologism.
I'd suggest that you're not reading anything which disagrees with your personal and contemporary ethics the way I do, or even the way it was written, in magic book. That it doesn't start and end in leviticus. What else would a person who disagrees with magic book about slaves and women do? What else could they do, beyond the pure memory hole - which is evergreen.
There are tons of ways to accomplish whatever personal curation the religion might require for a given individual. None of them are true to the faith, but all are true to the faithful. My personal fave is a christianity that doesn't rely on magic book in any way. That doesn't chain itself to the superstitions of the authors or the politics of it's construction or the ethics of some past society. When confronted with silly shit in magic book, a person who holds such a christian faith can simply shrug their shoulders and say - yeah, it says alot of shit - and neither of us believes all of it.
It's a christianity with the benefit of being completely honest, without any requirement to tie ourselves into argumentative knots, this thread being a running demonstration of the futility of that latter approach to christian apologism.
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