This pissed me off so fucking much when people defend Christianity by saying that all of the bad shit is in the Old Testament and that the New Testament is totally fine.

1 Corinthians 6:9

“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,”

Gay people and gender non-conforming people are not allowed in to heaven

1 Peter 3:1

“Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands;”

It’s still an extremely misogynistic book even in the new testament

Romans 1:26-27 … 32

"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."

Both homophobia and misogyny

I could go on and on, and I probably will in the comments, but it’s pretty fucking clear that all the nasty bigoted shit in the book just doesn’t go away in the New Testament

You cannot separate the bigotry from the Bible. The Bible is very clear that you cannot pick and chose, that you have to accept the full book or none of it, you can’t just take the verses you like and still be Christian. To be a good Christian who follows the entire Bible you must be bigoted

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21 points

Yeah, and billions of workers are homophobic and transphobic, just because a lot of people believe something doesn’t mean it’s suddenly good or that it should go without criticism

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Calling for the decolonization of Christianity and calling the Bible a colonial construct is clearly a criticism?

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I wasn’t saying that you were not criticizing it, I was saying that the number of people who believe it has no bearing on if it should be criticized or not

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But I wasn’t saying it shouldn’t be criticized, so why were you talking about whether it should be criticized or not?

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