this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2023
980 points (97.5% liked)
Political Memes
5301 readers
2619 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
So... To be clear, your argument here is that choosing the specific words of the savior which are canonized in the holy book (which may or may not be perfect, whatever) as exemplar behavior is invalid because...
*reads back*
"The Bible says a lot of things" so we shouldn't just focus on those?
So like, there's no reason to judge for not loving your neighbor, because the Bible also says you gotta do gay hating and there just aren't enough hours in the day to get them all done? What the fuck lol.
Or alternatively you're saying that "it says a lot of things" like no reasonable person would assume only good things are part of Christianity because it says all those bad things? Congratulations you've reached the argument for disregarding the Bible and taken steps 2-7 of becoming atheist.
Your argument sort of works if you want to discredit the "bad stuff", but when applied to core tenets of the faith to make Christians not look bad for not doing them it looks pretty stupid yo.
Using a bad faith book full of hypocrisies is not a valid way to judge others.
That was the point.
It's exactly the right way to judge those who use the same method of judgement. Calling LGBTQ+ people evil because the book says so? You best be following that book to the letter, or we're going to hit you with it.
If they followed the book to the letter, most of them should be executed.
If they believe it to be absolute truth, yes it is. That's how arguments work. Both sides don't need to believe an argument for it to be wrong, you need only show it isn't self consistent.