No True Scotsman

[Chad32]

We don't ignore the old testament at all. It shows the creation and the fall of mankind and the consequences suffered as a result. It also shows how God carried out his plan to send us the messiah and save us from our plight. It's the story of a people awaiting the messiah, which is fulfilled in the new testament.

Yeah, I know. You like the stories about Adam and Eve, the Tower of Babel, Noah's Ark, the exodus, the Ten Commandments, and the part that says homosexuality is wrong. It's just the parts saying slavery is ok except for Jewish people, which includes a loophole that permits Jewish slaves anyway. Or the part regarding rape where the victim is made to marry her rapist, or that it's ok to keep the virgins of the villages you slaughtered as your sex slaves, but if they don't plase you because presumably they hate you, you can shave their heads and throw them out on the street. Or all the verses about killing innocent children for the crimes of their parents.

The bible loves to talk about how bad Humans are, and praise the lord for loving us anyway, while ignoring the hypocrisy and narcissism of their deity. We're evil because we can't meet a standard that's purposefully set too high, then we're told we deserve eternal hellfire for finite crimes, just so we can beg for mercy from the creature that inflicted this on us in the first place. A creature that has clearly failed to improve Humanity, judging by the history of its followers. the only solitary reason this religion has lasted as long as it did is by force and fear.