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
OP, I have a similar upbringing to you. I stopped being a Christian once I saw the Bible for what it was: just a bunch of letters written by people many centuries ago for various reasons; containing all sorts of beliefs and biases that people living 2,000 years ago had. I feel like that helped give me tremendous clarity as to what it is. I think the absolute pinnacle of morality and philosophy it contains is the Sermon on the Mount… and that, at best, is just meh. There’s just not much there. And if you want to say church tradition and philosophy is just as important as the Bible… well that’s a whole other can of worms to open.
I’m willing to admit that there are many people who follow a Christianity that isn’t necessarily reactionary. But frankly that whitewashes just how reactionary and detrimental it has been to human progress even in areas where things like liberation theology are strong.
And frankly, I love my comrades (❤️) but if you didn’t grow up in Evangelical Christianity you can’t really get just how horrible and destructive it is to people at an individual level and for society. I deal with this IRL with people I know who weren’t raised in it and are all like “oh it can’t be that bad” or “yeah but there’s still good parts too why focus on the negative”?
Edit: said another way, if you love Marvel movies and they mean a lot to you, have at it. It’s a valid way to spend you time. But that’s not gonna stop me from thinking it’s useless slop at best.