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[-] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

I for one am glad Jesus is kept the fuck out of my government.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago

Imagine people took the message of Jesus serious to stop hoarding wealth and give to the poor. Truly a scary prospect. What comes next? Treating the sick without charging them?

[-] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

I always considered the problem not to be any one part of the message or other, but the process. It is a bad idea to make a perfect, inalterable text of any kind into law, no matter how good it is. The legal process does need guidance from higher principles, but the best way to do that is with a constitution, which can also be altered if necessary.

That is why I'm glad Jesus is kept the hell out of my government. Because yeah, he actually does try to teach a lot of commendable principles. But Jesus also says that all of the old Jewish laws of the old testament still hold. There is some fully crazy shit in the old testament.

Meanwhile, Jesus does all kinds of stuff in violation of those same laws. Is it no surprise, then, that, following Jesus's example, Christians follow the bible just as selectively?

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