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[–] 13 points 2 hours ago* (1 child)

Death for adultery? I’d like to think we’re more evolved than biblical law these days. For instance, I think he should be put to death for all the child rape but that’s just me.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 hours ago

    Reading the bible is an easy path to atheism

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  • [–] 17 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    According to the Bible he's the damn antichrist

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  • [–] 10 points 12 hours ago

    The tiny little rural town I was raised in as a kid had a dog food factory, an itty bitty post office not much bigger than a port 'o potty, and an old shut down gas station. I think the town and surrounding area had a population of 300 or 500 (this was back in the 90s). It also had 10 churches (maybe more) all lined up along the bypass highway that went through "downtown".

    40 years later, as of last time I've been through, nothing's really changed.

    I only say this because I feel like kids already had plenty of options to study the Bible? Like half those churches did some kind of service 7 days a week, and on some days, multiple services. Services including Sunday School and Bible Study.

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  • [–] 81 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    And let's not forget sloth, gluttony, wrath, envy, vanity and pride.

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  • [–] 59 points 22 hours ago (40 children)

    Trump never cared for religion until he realised he can use it as a tool for oppression

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  • [–] 38 points 22 hours ago (38 children)

    Was religion ever intended to fill a different role?

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  • [–] 15 points 22 hours ago (13 children)

    It was/is a ruleset made by humans for humans to ensure cooperation within huge groups. Bit outdated nowadays but the concept is continued in form of laws, human rights, social norms etc.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago*

    I often reflect on the role it filled for mental health before the advent of science, psychology, and neuropsychiatry.

    I was raised in a very opressive sect of protestantism, where I was instructed to pray and meditate. I find it analogus to visualisation and self reflection. I learned silence and meditation, I was put in situations where sitting silent by the hour listening to empty droning speech was my only recourse. My first awareness of the concept of mental illness was from bible stories of those people being healed implying their condition was not inherent to them, they were innocent.

    The act of singing together about our beliefs and feelings has always seemed like a powerful thing that has vanished from our society, except at baseball games.

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  • [–] 13 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

    It's also commonly used to create a strong sense of "us"/"them", inferiority to the unquestionable elite, superiority and self righteousness over non-believers, and a great way to force your underlings to do your bidding disguised as words from "God", whoever that might be.

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    [–] 22 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    Don't forget, the Bible says loaning money with interest is a road to hell.

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  • [–] 8 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Just flood him with Bible quotes that emphasize why him and his family are sinners going to hell. Non-stop. Break the connection between Republicans and Christianity.

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  • [–] 14 points 22 hours ago

    "I never really thought about hell, until I learned about people I wished it existed for...."

    ~ Me

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago

    They didn’t have that option before? The Bible was banned?

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago

    But the bible was for waving

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  • [–] 6 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

    I'm pretty sure that punishment was only meted out to women, even rape victims.

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  • [–] 16 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

    No, both partners were supposed to be stoned. If you raped an unmarried woman you had to pay her father and marry her.

    Leviticus 20:10 “‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death

    Deuteronomy 22:23If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

    25But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.

    28If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29he shall pay her father fifty shekels c of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

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  • [–] 19 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

    I’d rather be stoned than forced to marry my rapist. The Bible really fucking sucks.

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  • [–] 7 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    No, both partners were supposed to be stoned.

    In practice this was rarely the case. Men were generally not stoned for rape or adultery.

    My point is there is often a stark difference between the law and the application of the law. This is how conservatives hid behind the law, saying things like "There's no systemic racism, look at the law!" while ignore the unequal application/enforcement of law.

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