"Cut and paste" Christianity

[Eilonnwy]

It's things like this that sometimes makes me think Fundamentalists are more honest of the Christian, since they take their Bible for what it is and offer no excuses or exclusions.

Moderate Christians can baffle me, when they pick Bible Versus they want to prop up their beliefs and ignore or write off inconsistencies. Then, in the same breath they will declare the Bible is the source of all morality and is cohesive and good. I want to shake them and say, "Every time you ignore Bible passages you don't like, you are making moral judgment on the Bible, choosing your own morality!" Therefore, they exhibit a morality outside of the Bible, a subjective morality. If we subscribed to all the moral sayings in that book, we'd still be espousing the virtues of slavery. People are better than their beliefs. It's a strange cognitive dissonance that allows them to dance around problems of the Bible.

I would never say there are no positive sayings in the Bible. I think atheists who insist there are only bad things in there is wrong and misleading just as any Christian is wrong or misleading for insisting there are only good things. You certainly can pick certain stories or quotes to espouse many beliefs, good or evil. The fact that it's so easy to do it on the evil side should really bother Christians more and make them take a good hard look at what they insist is the Word of God and source of morality.