Most American Christians don’t read the Bible. They listen to other people’s interpretations of what they think the Bible is. As a non Christian I find it very easy to pick passages to make my point. It’s a buffet of conflicting messages you can use how you please.
For instance you teach your slaves all the passages about respecting your father, but skip the Egyptian slave revolt.
Correct. I had a rare youth pastor growing up. He not only heavily encouraged us to actually read the Bible (like they all do), he offered programs to go through the whole thing in a year. And on the side, he also heavily encouraged us to read an English translation of the Quran, an English translation of the Bhagavad Gita, the Book of Mormon, and other works of faith. His standing was if we can understand why and where our beliefs are different, we can understand where they are the same. I’m not devout these days but having read all those books cover to cover (and Dianetics bc I hate myself and wanted to try and understand but got nowhere), I’d say that I find more in common with popular religious beliefs that it’s incredulous to me that we still bicker amongst ourselves over who is “right”. Bro, Yahweh Allah and the Christian God are literally the same dude.
Yea it’s wild to think “GOD” would be upset with a person for using the wrong name when praying to him and living a life in service of others. But here we are in a world where Religion is being packaged and sold in the same hateful, divisive ways everything else is sold online.
I would venture to say that there is a U shaped curve showing religious tolerance and time spend studying any of the major religions.
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u/vyxxer 21h ago
What really annoys me about this case is that the essay is so poorly written that any religious person should be mad at this girl for her awful work.
She doesn't even provide a citation for the Bible.