But part of the issue is you are cherry picking WHAT JESUS SAID. You’re literally justifying their actions by trying to pretend like their book doesn’t give them justification.
Jesus said that you must continue the laws previously set by their god. His generic “be nice” message doesn’t supersede the horrible treatment of others the rest of the book promotes. And the part you’re missing is that all the shitty things people do now they can go back to the book and say “look, its says this is all ok. Even Jesus agrees” because it does say that.
This is what happens in all of the highly violent religions. There are good and bad parts and everyone wants to pretend like the bad parts aren’t there. They want to say that people are manipulating the word to justify things when honestly they aren’t. These books were created by people who wanted to justify their own actions, their own grabs for power. They invent gods and create stories to show that the horrible stuff they do is ok because their god says so.
The people you’re saying aren’t Christian are Christian. Sadly they most likely haven’t read their own book, haven’t actually studied it in depth. And the ironic part is that even then most of them still are following what the book says even when doing horrible things.
But part of the issue is you are cherry picking WHAT JESUS SAID. You’re literally justifying their actions by trying to pretend like their book doesn’t give them justification.
Jesus said that you must continue the laws previously set by their god. His generic “be nice” message doesn’t supersede the horrible treatment of others the rest of the book promotes. And the part you’re missing is that all the shitty things people do now they can go back to the book and say “look, its says this is all ok. Even Jesus agrees” because it does say that.
This is what happens in all of the highly violent religions. There are good and bad parts and everyone wants to pretend like the bad parts aren’t there. They want to say that people are manipulating the word to justify things when honestly they aren’t. These books were created by people who wanted to justify their own actions, their own grabs for power. They invent gods and create stories to show that the horrible stuff they do is ok because their god says so.
The people you’re saying aren’t Christian are Christian. Sadly they most likely haven’t read their own book, haven’t actually studied it in depth. And the ironic part is that even then most of them still are following what the book says even when doing horrible things.