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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

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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago

And marx had some fucked up opinions on jews and homosexuals, along with a lot of others in the "Marxist canon" that doesn't mean we throw out the entire ideology because the founder had ideas of race and gender that most people believed before the last century.

The reality is most people who are Christians, like Marxists, haven't read every single book and letter and believe everything that was written. They take the core concepts and apply them to the modern world.

Even the bigoted Christians aren't really orthodox, they aren't following the part that says you shouldn't do usury, they're just bigots looking for a justification for there bigotry. They just Google the verse in the Bible that says gays are bad, just like the small minority of homophobic Marxists will pull up a marx or stalin quote against it.

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