Technically there was mention about abusing children sexually as a sin, but they changed it to being gay is a sin. Saying the quiet part out loud.

There sounds like there's a lot missing here, and calling your father "Daddy" is weird.

Daddy refused the term 'father', as father is God, so I was forced to call him dad or daddy.

Yes there's a bit missing here, I'd rather not go over all the abuse I went through.

Interpretations are interesting, to say the least.

Almost all the holy commandments can be interpreted any which way a person decides to interpret them.

So, your interpretation seems to loosely be something like 'If I don't fuck a child or bomb a school, then Jesus will keep me safe'?

Jesus never had a gun, and God has all the asteroids. Wait wait, humans made the missiles and bombs...

Fuck I dunno where I'm going with this, do you?

Ight CM, take my upvote and go smoke a joint.

I hope you can find peace and forgive whoever hurt you so bad.

You think the bible was written in English...?

No shit Watson, it was written in Hebrew.

YHWH

I'm perfectly fine. Hearing about all these "men of God" molesting kids and acting like believing in God makes them better than everyone else is pretty ridiculous.

How is this the fault of all Christians?

Please go to therapy

Therapist died like 2 decades ago, what do with no insurance?

I never said it was the fault of all Christians. Just the fault of Pentecostals and Mormans..

So how much child beating is necessary for it to not be hating a child? How much/little is abuse?

Beating children is not an effective way to get them to behave. But people didn't know that (and still don't) so they thought/think they need to beat good behaviour into their kids.

Which commandment is that? Which number, cos neither of those is in any list of the 10 commandments ive ever seen.

Lots of people treating the Torah as exclusively Christian in here.

Depending on where you split the clauses, there are as many as 18 commandments

And here I thought it was fifteen.

Do you have a source? I was always told that Roman patriacians were allowed to marry 12yo girls, but most girls married at 16, and that puberty was around 14-16.

But the first four are about how much of a sad loser god you are praying to.

I mean, there's only ten of them. It's not called God's Comprehensive List of All 283092893936 Immoral Actions.

LOL, I did actually link that somewhere in the comments. 👍

Do you want to have a real discussion about morality and religious teaching, or are you just in search of an gotcha quote because you feel the need to reinforce your theocratic nihilism by arguing with a theist on the internet?

I mean I guess you got me, I was being a dick.

I am genuinely interested, but I wasn't acting like it, I was being needlessly provocative.

I've been learning a lot about Christian history but I'm frustrated because it (Christianity) doesn't really make sense.

“Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.”
--Eddie Izzard

The higher ed institution I work for is installing them in every classroom per a state law. Smh

Phuck ☹️

I wouldn't blame you or anyone really if people started printing out and installing a sticker paper banner under such displays that says something like..

"11 - Thou shalt protect the children at all times"

Nothing about slavery in the 10 commandments either. In fact, the deity in the bible explicitly advocates for slavery. Read Leviticus 21. The deity talks about how to treat your slaves and beat them as long as they don't die. Also, different rules for Hebrew slaves (the deitys people). Christians are sick mother fuckers that should abandon their holy book.

Oof, phuck.

At least they fed the slaves right? A starving slave isn't going to be very productive are they?

Any wonder why over 400 TSA workers recently quit? No pay, can't even buy groceries..

And ain't it just cute, turnip gonna send in ICE agents...

Man its sad fucking times we live in right now :(

The bible is cherry picked to hell. Christians that actually read their holy book can justify racism, as their deity explicitly advocates for slavery in the bible. Slaves are property and not neighbors in their holy book. The bible is trash, and people should be wiping their asses with it instead.

I think a good pointer when you want to approach religion from a sane perspective is to treat it as primitive tech. For example, modern people know that you need to separate science from politics from law from history from psychology etc... and have a different system for each. But pre-modern people didn't necessarily know that, so religious doctrine had to serve several, sometimes incompatible purposes. You look at it and it's like a shovel that has a hammer on it and part of the hammer can be used as a screwdriver. It makes no sense but at the same time it kinda does and it sure has dug a lot of holes and tightened a lot of screws over millennia.

Or "Thou shalt not own slaves" Instead the bible deity explicitly advocated for it and allows you to beat their ass as long as they don't die. Bible deity is a piece of shit!

Might I suggest 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture

A comparison of religion to legal systems is both only a sensible comparison to the three Abrahamic religions and incredibly useful for those three. (Other religions such as Buddhism are more starkly personal).

Essentially no Christian, Muslim, or Jew in any century takes the common scripture and reads it like an RPG manual for the game of life. Either they're laypersons who rely upon the guidance of experts, or they're the experts and they approach it with the advantage and bias of the years of study it took to become experts. And if those experts are wrong, there is always some authority to correct and rebuke their interpretation.

Ignoring the Protestant schism for a moment, this is exactly how the USA's legal system works. The body of written law and judicial interpretation are extremely complex and nobody relies only on the plain text of the law when they want to figure out how it affects them. Even the crazy sovereign citizens mostly rely on someone else's interpretation.

(And "sane" isn't really a helpful label here. It encourages atheists to think about Christians as if the latter are entirely unpredictable and unreasonable, when it's much more useful to think of us as mostly rational people who have a philosophical difference with you. More akin to the leftist/progressive/liberal/socialist discussion you can see on Lemmy than a MAGA/non-MAGA encounter.)

No you might not. I asked a really simple question, you should be able to answer it in one word, or better yet by providing the book, chapter and verse.

So, like many people, have completely not understood how this bible and Christianity thing works.

The ten commandments, together with the other laws of Exodus and Deuteronomy, are part of the old covenant. The key thing of Christianity is that Jesus set up a new covenant, replacing the old with the simple formula "love thy neighbor like thyself". The old ten commandments (at least 4-10) can be seen as an interpretation of that new covenant. Many of the other laws of the Pentateuch, like the slavery laws, not so much.

The significance of Jesus is the movement he spawned. I'm not talking about the Catholic church as it was codified by the Romans a few centuries after his death, but about the movement of Jesus which spread far and wide directly after he died. This movement flourished not by the blade and the authority of oppressive regimes, but because it simply spoke deeply to people, especially the poor and disenfranchised. This kind of thing only happened a handful of times during history.

He was important because he created a blueprint for resistance of the oppressed, in a time where such resistance was a very hard sell because it went so contrary to the norms and cultures.

Then the old testament should just be tosses out. Obsolete. Instead, it's cherry picked. The bible is complete trash.

Eh, not as much as you'd think. The back of your neck near the brainstem is crucial to temperature regulation. That's why the go-to advice to alleviate heat stress is putting something cool like a wet towel around your neck. During midday when the sun is highest, keeping the sun off the back of your neck may well keep you cooler than keeping it off your face. Using your hands to shield your eyes occasionally looks a heck of a lot less dumb than keeping your hands up to shield the back of your neck.

Moral of the story, baseball hats are great for watching baseball, where you're sitting facing one direction the whole time and can orient them accordingly. For general outdoor work, a sun hat with a neck flap is waaayyy better.