RE: How can Christians not admit Christianity is all a pile of garbage when ...?
February 16, 2012 at 10:24 pm
(January 31, 2012 at 2:03 pm)Xavier Wrote: How can modern Christians not admit Christianity is all a pile of garbage when reject ideas which are integral to it?
Most Christians don't says people should be stoned to death for adultery or homosexuality, say Hindus and Buddhists should all be murdered and their temples burnt down if they won't worship the Judeo Christian god. They don't think slavery is OK. They don't believe in Adam or Eve or any of the bullshit science in Genesis.
So how can they not think the whole Bible is not just a work of fiction if they're rejecting half of it as fiction or morally wrong anyway?
Oh that's actually a really hard point for conservative Evangelicals to answer. In order to justify treating homosexual people like second-class citizens you really have to take the Bible pretty literally. Then you feel kind of slighted when they don't kick adulterers out of church and stone disobedient children. They typically gloss over stuff like that, and usually they kind of downplay the Old Testament (except when it comes to gays, then it's a great text). It's kind of an odd, schizophrenic reading of the text that ends up supporting whatever they want to support. Your average Christian can't really even explain what their hermeneutic is, they're just going off of things they've heard. So the basic answer is, "because people just inherent a way of justifying their opinions from whoever they follow that doesn't really even have to be logically consistent."
I think it's kind of ridiculous to read a book of stories and poetry as a constitution for enforcing morality, but that's just me.
