How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Christian?

[YahwehIsTheWay]

Words written by human people who were inspired to write of their experiences of God through the medium of their own culture at the time. It still counts being from God of course but it doesn't mean you have to stone people to death for working on the Sabbath Day or whatever, even the modern Jews have stopped doing that.

Oh, I get it, you're one of those namby-pamby Christians who thinks that somehow human culture overrides The Word of God. Your kind tries to accommodate "modernity" and say things like "well, you know that Yahweh was really against slavery all along but human beings in that cultural context and time weren't ready to abolish slavery and so..." as if Yahweh were powerless to command its abolition if that were indeed his will. Same is true with homosexuality. If our Lord didn't intend for gays to be put to death, why would he say to do so in the first place? And why should his bleeding on a cross somehow get himself to change the rule he made in the first place?

I repeat, if it IS The Word of God, it is timeless and universal, not relative to fickle human whims and relative cultural context.

Much of our culture and moral values have been brought about through the Judeo-Christian tradition. Our social support systems and equality of human rights, the abolition of slavery and all that business has it's roots there.

What Bible did you read?

The Bible supports the divine right of kings (Rom 13:1-3). It admonishes slaves to obey their masters (Eph 6:5). Jesus rejected the idea that all humans are equal (see "Cannanite Dogs" story, Matt 15:22-28). Women are to submit to men and have no position of authority (talking to you Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, et al) (1Tim 2:11-12).

Going out on a limb I think there is a reasonable claim that secular democratic states and modern Western science have their foundations in this as well though you could also sort of trace this to the pagans of the Classical world and ancient Greece. Though it was all later re-discovered and implemented by the Christian West.

The flimsy limb just broke.

Christianity is only in its current unfortunate state because it had to compromise with secularism, science, democracy and modernity. These things are not the result of Christianity. They are ascendant because of the failures of Christianity, largely due to relativist, flip-flopping phony Christians like yourself.

The Golden Age of Christianity was the Dark Ages when science and secularism were kept in check.