RE: Wash your hands or do not wash your hands when you eat
October 18, 2021 at 1:52 pm
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2021 at 1:53 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(October 18, 2021 at 12:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That was my take on it - he was saying to be more concerned with spiritual defilement. I have to say that, while not generally a fan of Jesus, he handled the Pharisees pretty well.
Boru
If one reads Mark 7 or/ and Matthew 17 (which is in the 1st post) it does appear as if Jesus was saying to people not to wash their hands before eating since his apostles were drawing attention because they ate with dirty, unwashed hands, as well as from dirty dishes
Mark 7 Wrote:The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. ... And they [Pharisees] observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles.
Not to mention that if Jesus was an all-knowing entity who knew about germs, that he was a dick to say to people not to wash their hands even if it was only on a "spiritual level" -- it would be as if someone today told people not to wear a condom if they are having sex with a stranger, just to prove some other point.
"Come on, have unprotected sex with that person you don't yet know if he or she has vd and see what happens to you." -- apologists for that guru would no doubt find some way to make sense of it in their minds.
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"
