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
yeah there’s no central authority saying who is a Christian and who isn’t. And where exactly in any of the books does it say the full book must be considered? There isn’t even a full agreement on what the Bible constitutes, and the full canonical version didn’t even exist until at least 400 AD, which was 300 years after the Book of Revelations was written. There was no “full book” when any of the books were written.
And even if you wanted to say a central Christian authority exists, I guess it would be the Catholic Church. Except they have centuries of philology and interpretation detailing what it all means. And even then the Catholics don’t always have full orthodoxy since regional churches will absolutely incorporate syncretism to better mesh with local traditions. This is all over Latin America where Catholic Churches will have their own local saints or banquets or will use language that indigenous people may be more familiar with.
I don’t think a good gauge of a religion should be what their books literally say, since that never seems to matter over the material Earth we live on