Today I had a Bible verse on my Masto timeline. And I know I shouldn’t care, but it made me so angry. Like the verse itself was nice and all, no doubt. But holy fuck. You can find so much bullshit in that book. Why don’t you quote that? You can’t just cherry pick the quotes you like best.
I can’t also go around and just quote random passages from Mein Kampf because they sound nice without the context.
I hate that so much. I always need to refrain from dropping Leviticus 21:18-21 or Timothy 2:12 or some other bullshit in the replies.
Sorry for the rant. Just needed to let it out somewhere.
So, the original comment said it’s equally wrong to cherry-pick the negatives. These negatives and positives almost exclusively revolve around tolerance. The Bible is racist, antisemitic, ableist, homophobe, transphobe, etc. All of these topics are “tolerance” related. On the other hand, you have bible verses that teach us to be tolerant. And these are the ones that theists mostly quote. That’s precisely the pinnacle of the tolerance paradox. It’s exactly the fallacy of the horseshoe theory.
Maybe this image explains it better:
If we pretend that the Bible is “good”, because we tolerate the intolerant sections, we are not in a neutral position. We would rather have a power balance that pushes intolerance.
Are you seriously comparing religions to Nazism? Wtf. We “tolerate” uncomfortable BOOKS all the time, that’s part of what makes literature nuanced and worth analyzing. Yes people cherry pick quotes from the Bible, like they do for… Everthing? Every book, every person, every event is quoted with the bias and intent for whoever is quoting it.