It's not about not having a clue. It's about being hateful fucks, and trying to come up with some sort of justification for why being generous, loving and kind is unChristian because she makes them look bad and they know it.
Old Testament vengeful God for people they don't like, New Testament forgiving Jesus for themselves and people they like.
Very much like the law enforcement and courts they want.
No, but the idea that they are attacking someone in the name of “Old Testament fire and brimstone” when they ought to be exhibiting “New Testament love” is wildly antisemitic.
Whereas Revelations seems out of place in the NT, like John accidentally ate 20 caps of psilocybin and had a horrifically bad trip; OT consistently paints god as angry, jealous, and vengeful.
It’s neither here nor there for me because I think the Bible is horse shit. But for what it’s worth
Christians keep claiming that the OT consistently portrays Gd as angry and vengeful, but the only way they can do that is by highly selective readings. Jews find a Gd who is consistently loving and forgiving. See the 13 attributes:
Dear whatever deity there may or may not be, protect me from people who are sure that merely by being atheists they are super geniuses who get to be dicks to anyone who espouses any faith.
I believe that you believe your god is loving and forgiving. it’s fruitless for me to point out examples of his opposing nature, because I don’t believe any of it - the kind, gracious god or the angry vengeful god. I have nothing against you and I apologize if my comment before came across that way
What do you hope to achieve with this comment? Jews have already said that’s an antisemitic trope and you’re doubling down based on what appears to be a surface reading with no substance.
I’ve read it. I’ve taken a deep dive. If you take the full context my comment, you’ll see that I’m not really down with Judaism or Christianity or any other religion. Is the op anti Christian for pointing out they put fire and brimstone in scripture? I’m just making an observation.
I eye most religion with suspicion, but I don’t harbor ill will toward a person for believing. I assume your defensiveness is based on current events and I can understand that.
It is antisemitic (& false, & a heresy for Christians) to claim that the Christian deity is loving and forgiving but the Jewish Gd is angry, vengeful, etc. That’s what I’m responding to. I don’t know why you need to defend that ugly viewpoint if you’re as liberated from religion as you claim.
Well by all means, I will defer to your superior knowledge of your preferred mythology. You should have no trouble answering whether the person to whom I responded is anti Christian. (I have no reason to believe she is based on her comment alone)
I’m not bb anti anything except hatred
She is not. There is a power structure in play. The oppressor cannot be the one subjected to the oppression. She is a Jew telling non-Jews something that affects Jews and you are insinuating that people who have a religion cannot be thinkers or even atheists. Ignorance is your mantle.
