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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[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Two things that hexbear can't understand why people like it: Christianity and Cumtown.

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

The latter has legit good bits sometimes, I've yet to see Jesus post a "Liberal Elmo" or "Glass Lighting your Mom with a Whoopee Cushion"

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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think it's notable that all this stuff is just the books after the Gospels. I'm not a Christian but the word of Christ himself is pretty good and decidedly not very bigoted. Paul's letters to random churches are much less indicative of the Christian god's views on things and more about what the Catholic (at that time really just meaning "universal") church thought of matters. Many other Christians at the time, who have later been deemed "heretics" by the very people who enshrined Paul's letters as "canonical" books of the Bible, would strongly disagree with Paul's writings. Christianity is a very broad tent. The contents of the New Testament were only codified at the Council of Nicaea, over three hundred years after Christ.

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[–] SeasonalDepressionEnjoyer@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

Wow I really started this whole thing huh. Completely agree with this, and you put it into words far better than I would have.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (17 children)

The Bible is a colonial construct, biblical canon was literally chosen by those in power so that they could wield power. The Bible says you cannot pick and choose because the people who picked and chose what books were in the Bible said so.

I think Christianity can be decolonized, though. Liberation theologies have made attempts at it and they're very interesting imo

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[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

obama-prism I appreciate my christian comrades

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fuck the Pauline Epistles. I choose to believe those don't exist.

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[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

From a strategic perspective, it's in our interest to work with (or at the very least tolerate) religion where it isn't actively harming people. Otherwise it becomes an easy wedge between any sort of leftist movement and the people we're trying to help.

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