I agree it’s not mentioned much, nevertheless it’s a dogma that’s used to oppress people both within and without the religious group. IIRC most of it is either Old Testament law or Pauline letters. If it’s important to you, I can try to find verses to back that up.
I find it odd that right after a comment talking about not shying away from contradictions in the bible, you deflect in this comment by focusing on what Jesus says and that an absence of mention in that is meaningful. That’s a very narrow section of the bible. It’s not even the majority of the New Testament. It’s also the only one supporting this:
overwhelming themes of love and acceptance, of not judging, of having grace, and conclude that this issue merits such insane and unacceptable behaviour
I cannot disagree more. Those are relatively minor themes of the Christian Bible. Again, really only coming through in the gospels. The Old Testament is filled to the brim with violence, oppression, sexual assault, slavery, child murder (especially by Yahweh), and loads more unsavory content. Very little love and acceptance. The New Testament has those themes in the gospels, then a lot of judgment, oppression, and dogma in the Pauline letters that informs much of modern Christian doctrine, and then some fever dreams at the end when someone got a little too into Kabbalah.
I would argue the way modern Christians use the bible is much more in the spirit of the text as a whole than what you describe for yourself. Your version is infinitely better, and we wouldn’t need to be having this argument if more people thought like you, but I think it’s just not true that the bible is a book of love and acceptance. By weight, it is much more a book of violence and hate. In line with the Canaanite war god that started the whole thing.
I agree it’s not mentioned much, nevertheless it’s a dogma that’s used to oppress people both within and without the religious group. IIRC most of it is either Old Testament law or Pauline letters. If it’s important to you, I can try to find verses to back that up.
I find it odd that right after a comment talking about not shying away from contradictions in the bible, you deflect in this comment by focusing on what Jesus says and that an absence of mention in that is meaningful. That’s a very narrow section of the bible. It’s not even the majority of the New Testament. It’s also the only one supporting this:
I cannot disagree more. Those are relatively minor themes of the Christian Bible. Again, really only coming through in the gospels. The Old Testament is filled to the brim with violence, oppression, sexual assault, slavery, child murder (especially by Yahweh), and loads more unsavory content. Very little love and acceptance. The New Testament has those themes in the gospels, then a lot of judgment, oppression, and dogma in the Pauline letters that informs much of modern Christian doctrine, and then some fever dreams at the end when someone got a little too into Kabbalah.
I would argue the way modern Christians use the bible is much more in the spirit of the text as a whole than what you describe for yourself. Your version is infinitely better, and we wouldn’t need to be having this argument if more people thought like you, but I think it’s just not true that the bible is a book of love and acceptance. By weight, it is much more a book of violence and hate. In line with the Canaanite war god that started the whole thing.