• Goat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 days ago

    the tags calling Christianity media explicitly against hate is crazy work when the Bible, in the most literal way possible, has God demand several genocidal massacres that are then carried out without question, with Saul getting punished by God for not being thorough enough in the killing of all living things in Amalek

    • froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      12 days ago

      Christianity media is very contradictory, at least if taken literally. The Gospels have a lot messages encouraging empathy to people regardless of their faith and social status, and ideas one could call “leftist”

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      11 days ago

      Iirc that’s the old testament, which is part of the Torah

      The New testament is all about why you should love each other and not discriminate, and the old testament is included as a reference since Christianity evolved out of Judaism?

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        Well, the New Testament has plenty of Jesus acting like a general dickhead, doing some pretty despicable things, and making it abundantly clear that he does not condemn any of the atrocities that God requested in the Old Testament.

        Also, the status of the Old Testament very much depends on the denomination: it’s an “allegory” in Orthodox Christianity (read: when the book very clearly says that it stands for cruelty and genocide, it’s actually an elaborate metaphor for sunshine and rainbows), whereas Catholicism purportedly takes it quite seriously.