(April 2, 2017 at 10:03 am)Chad32 Wrote:(April 2, 2017 at 9:12 am)Brian37 Wrote: Both conservative and liberal Christians are wrong, there is no deity or man with super powers, but damn people, if you are going to cherry pick the bible, "If you cant afford health care, die quickly" would not be the NT Jesus I would want to buy into if I had a belief. The GOP wants to drag us back to the dark ages. At least liberals have some empathy.
Yeah, you have to cherry pick if you're going to keep your sanity, so why not just cherry pick the nice parts? Granted Jesus wasn't always nice and enlightened, but he said some good things now and then.
Jesus was just a sock puppet for the various people who wrote the NT.