Thanks Christians, you can shove that bible right up your collective asses.
No shit, the christian bible is absolute trash. Teaches you how to treat your slaves, can rape women, sell your daughter for foreskins. Daughters get their dad drunk and rape him. People that believe that shit have ZERO place in my life, and I will judge you. You can’t have critical thinking and believe skydaddy is there with a grand plan while children are being raped, people murdered and diseases running rampant. Absolute disgrace of a leader.
If it’s gods will, why the fuck are you praying? Are you telling your God he’s wrong? What was his plan for babies born missing their skin? Was that a punishment for their parents? Why is God hanging out on the field for your favorite team and not helping feed starving, innocent children? If you can answer these questions with a straight face, you’re a terrible human being and deserve to burn for it.
Damn homie, you wanna go get a beer and watch the world burn?
Shit’s fucked up ain’t it?
I hope you can find peace and forgive whoever hurt you so bad.
I’m perfectly fine. Hearing about all these “men of God” molesting kids and acting like believing in God makes them better than everyone else is pretty ridiculous.
I mean, there’s only ten of them. It’s not called God’s Comprehensive List of All 283092893936 Immoral Actions.
“Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.” –Eddie Izzard
Well 10 commandments are part of Deuteronomy, older than christian religion, and the book was nitpicked by those who institutionalized Christianity.
Even before then. They’re originally listed in Exodus. Fun fact, after the tablet smashing incident when Moses goes back up the mountain to get a new set carved in Exodus 32, several of those listed by god in the process of creating the replacements are different from the first ten. Depending on where you split the clauses, there are as many as 18 commandments between the first and the second sets.
Deuteronomy is a recap, including only the first ten, but also manages get the explanation for the sabbath wrong as compared to previous chapters. Then it goes on to claim “these are the ten commandments and god added no more” which as we just saw is an untruth.
Even in Ye Olde Testament Times, an effort was afoot to deliberately mutate the terms and conditions in order to suit the current authority.
Forgot about that. I usually focus on Deuteronomy as it is really, very “fun”
Depending on where you split the clauses, there are as many as 18 commandments
And here I thought it was fifteen.
“Ye Olde Testament”?
Its not ‘ye’, its ‘þe’, the thorn character, pronounced today as it always was, ‘the’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
So educate yourself, and please drop all that ‘ye’ shit, all articles that reference ye are incorrect. ‘ye’ is a mistranslation itself.
Ight CM, take my upvote and go smoke a joint.
I was obviously being deliberately facetious. Relax.
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You think the bible was written in English…?
No shit Watson, it was written in Hebrew.
YHWH
Neither in Judaism nor Christianity are the Ten Commandments the only religious rules that exist.
Nothing about slavery in the 10 commandments either. In fact, the deity in the bible explicitly advocates for slavery. Read Leviticus 21. The deity talks about how to treat your slaves and beat them as long as they don’t die. Also, different rules for Hebrew slaves (the deitys people). Christians are sick mother fuckers that should abandon their holy book.
Oof, phuck.
At least they fed the slaves right? A starving slave isn’t going to be very productive are they?
Any wonder why over 400 TSA workers recently quit? No pay, can’t even buy groceries…
And ain’t it just cute, turnip gonna send in ICE agents…
Man its sad fucking times we live in right now :(
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The higher ed institution I work for is installing them in every classroom per a state law. Smh
Phuck ☹️
I wouldn’t blame you or anyone really if people started printing out and installing a sticker paper banner under such displays that says something like…
“11 - Thou shalt protect the children at all times”
LOL, I did actually link that somewhere in the comments. 👍
That’s why the Republicans want them in classrooms, instead of “love thy neighbour as thyself”. Because that would imply that racism is bad, and that’s something they do not want to hear.
The bible is cherry picked to hell. Christians that actually read their holy book can justify racism, as their deity explicitly advocates for slavery in the bible. Slaves are property and not neighbors in their holy book. The bible is trash, and people should be wiping their asses with it instead.
So, like many people, have completely not understood how this bible and Christianity thing works.
The ten commandments, together with the other laws of Exodus and Deuteronomy, are part of the old covenant. The key thing of Christianity is that Jesus set up a new covenant, replacing the old with the simple formula “love thy neighbor like thyself”. The old ten commandments (at least 4-10) can be seen as an interpretation of that new covenant. Many of the other laws of the Pentateuch, like the slavery laws, not so much.
Then the old testament should just be tosses out. Obsolete. Instead, it’s cherry picked. The bible is complete trash.
Damn bro you really owned em
Technically there was mention about abusing children sexually as a sin, but they changed it to being gay is a sin. Saying the quiet part out loud.
Which commandment is that? Which number, cos neither of those is in any list of the 10 commandments ive ever seen.
Might I suggest 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture
No you might not. I asked a really simple question, you should be able to answer it in one word, or better yet by providing the book, chapter and verse.
But the first four are about how much of a sad loser god you are praying to.
Someone has been burned by Christians it seems
I’ll confirm that for you, particularly the Pentecostals.
They were neighbors of mine within spitting distance, and yet like 2 years before my father passed away, they were trying to talk with me behind his back to acquire his land.
A part of me wanted to burn their fucking house down over that, but I’m better than that. After daddy passed, they acquired the land that I was supposed to inherit (about 1 acre), and threw out all our stuff.
I only got like less than 5% of the stuff I hoped to retrieve. Fuck, they even sold my registered to me motorhome to local meth heads for scrap when I was out of town.
So yeah, to say I was burned by Christians says the least. But it’s water off my back, I seek no revenge, that would just make me worse than them.
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There sounds like there’s a lot missing here, and calling your father “Daddy” is weird.
Daddy refused the term ‘father’, as father is God, so I was forced to call him dad or daddy.
Yes there’s a bit missing here, I’d rather not go over all the abuse I went through.
Please go to therapy
Therapist died like 2 decades ago, what do with no insurance?
How is this the fault of all Christians?
I never said it was the fault of all Christians. Just the fault of Pentecostals and Mormans…
Lots of people treating the Torah as exclusively Christian in here.
Real quick Google, absolutely none of this information vetted so take it with a pinch of salt.
10 commandments written around 1300-1600 BCE. Average life expectancy 20-35 years.
You’re not an adult for very long before you snuff it, and if you wanna have kids you gotta start as early as possible.
Average “life expectancy” in the past is misleading because it is skewed by high rates of infant/child mortality. If you made it to past your first few years, you stood a much better likelihood of reaching old age.
Average life expectancy and common life span doesn’t really correlate. As a simplified example, if half of babies die before their first year, and everyone else lives to 60, average life expectancy would be 30.
Life Expectancy ≠ Reproductive Years
Menopause is unfortunately a thing…
Sure but menopause doesn’t hit at 35 which is when the person I’m responding to thinks most people just died at.
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Interpretations are interesting, to say the least.
Almost all the holy commandments can be interpreted any which way a person decides to interpret them.
So, your interpretation seems to loosely be something like ‘If I don’t fuck a child or bomb a school, then Jesus will keep me safe’?
Jesus never had a gun, and God has all the asteroids. Wait wait, humans made the missiles and bombs…
Fuck I dunno where I’m going with this, do you?
You know why? When the Bible was written, crimes against children were considered property crimes against their father. Thou shalt not steal, and thou shalt not covet, both indirectly protect kids about as much as they’re intended to. Which isn’t much.
When the Bible was written is a very abstract concept covering a large timeframe
Interesting take, and not entirely wrong either imo. Though, I think the real reason is simply that such a commandment wasn’t necessary, because it was already implied from the very beginning. God gave Adam and Eve the mandate to care for his creation, and in conjunction with the fact that “Love the Lord your God” is the very first commandment (which means to follow his commandments), respecting the people that God created in his image would have absolutely unquestionable in the mind of the ancient Israelites.
The really hard to accept part is how this respect for what God made included the destruction of what is not of him, which included people. It’s a very alien concept to us today in our culture. The important part is that what you read in the Bible (esp. the Old Testament) cannot be taken at face value. Everything is seeped in historical context that often makes things seem at a glance to be the opposite of what they actually are. The translation from Hebrew and Greek compounds this problem.
TL;DR: If you want to take solace in confirmation bias, it’s not hard to do, and to blame you for doing so would be incredibly hypocritical of me. Remaining truly objective is the most grueling exercise in self-awareness and accepting uncomfortable possibilities anyone could ever undertake.
Interesting perspective. But yeah it seems like they danced all around the subject altogether.
Just as they don’t mention animal abuse, those morals don’t keep people in line.
The ten commandments are just part of the whole.
They do talk about animal abuse, along with slave prices, death penalty etc.
See Deuteronomy. Very fun read.
Indeed, and really there ought to be a few more commandments, such as:
‘Thou shalt not abuse earthly environmental resources beyond necessity’
Or something like that anyways. Really, if there’s only 10 commandments, they should be simplified and boiled down to only a couple or few commandments or so that encapsulate them all, as the late George Carlin presented…
Here’s another one based on the general conversation here:
Thou shalt not exploit or abuse a vulnerable person or creature.
Open to some interpretation, of course. But concise enough to cover the brush strokes if those who are obsessed with the Ten Commandments were to really follow through on implementing them.
I’d replace ‘a vulnerable’ with simply ‘any’, to be more broad about it, almost nobody deserves abuse.
Well, except serial killers, cannibals, leaders that orchestrate genocide, etc. in the worst of the worst fields of evil people. I’m not God, I’ll turn a blind eye to giving them a dose of their own medicine…
