This pissed me off so fucking much when people defend Christianity by saying that all of the bad shit is in the Old Testament and that the New Testament is totally fine.
1 Corinthians 6:9
“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,”
Gay people and gender non-conforming people are not allowed in to heaven
1 Peter 3:1
“Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands;”
It’s still an extremely misogynistic book even in the new testament
Romans 1:26-27 … 32
"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
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Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
Both homophobia and misogyny
I could go on and on, and I probably will in the comments, but it’s pretty fucking clear that all the nasty bigoted shit in the book just doesn’t go away in the New Testament
You cannot separate the bigotry from the Bible. The Bible is very clear that you cannot pick and chose, that you have to accept the full book or none of it, you can’t just take the verses you like and still be Christian. To be a good Christian who follows the entire Bible you must be bigoted
Shitty pastors who go on how “inerrant” the bible is say this as a tool of control.
The book written by doezens of people over hundreds of years itself does not.
I find it odd that you accept this line of reasoning that is clearly (no pun intended) in bad faith from obviously evil fucks.
It’s especially funny because the Bible itself is clearly a self critical process of picking and choosing over time, the earliest writings are revisited and reconsidered in light of later events and subsequent authors explicitly point out the limits of the received wisdom they have available to them.
Modern fundamentalism has thoroughly fucked this issue so badly that they have skewed the terms on which even people who do not believe it have discussions about the text. It’s honestly an astonishing accomplishment on their part