(March 22, 2015 at 10:13 am)Mr.wizard Wrote:(March 21, 2015 at 10:19 pm)urlawyer Wrote: Hey fellow human peoples, so I need a little help here. I'm trying to form a relatively air tight stance on the illogical inconsistencies of the new testament in the event that all hell breaks loose and I find myself arguing against a christian who somehow circumvents the ridiculousness of the old testament and is able to stand on the new testament by itself.
Now I know there is a plethora of factual contradictions in the first four books themselves which you'd think would be enough, but I need something more than a basic fact check to debate this. I need a philosophical/theological/moral point to make like you can do so easily with the old testament.
Does anyone know if Jesus ate babies, for instance, or liked The Last Airbender movie?
You really cant have the new testament standing on its own. The old testament has original sin, the commandments, the prophecies, and creation, without those the new testament doesn't make any sense.
All religions do this. Cherry picking allows everyone to move the goal posts.
The thing both right wing and liberal religious people, of all religions, forget is that they use the exact same books with the exact same words to justify what really amounts to social pecking orders.
You can justify both cruelty and compassion in any holy book. It still amounts to defending tribalism putting those who dont read that book the way you do in the position of being the "other", whom at best, are guests but most of the time the "outsider".