RE: What's your favorite (or the worst, in your opinion) bible passage?
April 28, 2015 at 1:16 pm
(April 28, 2015 at 4:48 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: John 3:18 'He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.'
This to me sums up the paucity of Christianity and the idiotic nature of redemption. Implicit in the verse is the affirmation that your life doesn't matter. Fuck helping the less fortunate, fuck being kind to animals, fuck fidelity, charity, honesty, and love. ALL that matters is that you believe in Jesus. You can be an utter shitehawk, but if you believe in Jesus you're saved forever and ever amen. You can be an exemplary human being in all other matters, but lack of belief in an unconvincing story has already condemned you, not to mention the more than half of humanity that doesn't swallow this tripe.
Easily the cruelest verse in the Bible.
Boru
Why, it's almost as though religion exists mostly to create an ever expanding population of people who are unquestioning and easily swayed to whatever whim the leadership has....
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
