I duck out for a couple weeks or so, and it's the same as ever when I turn back up: Some poor slob of a Christian doing the "Even though it fills up half my Bible, it has nothing to do with my religion!" Old Testament dance.
So while we're tossing the "kill gays" part of the OT onto the fire, can we heave Eden, Noah, and the Ten Commandments in too?
The Bible as Hate Literature?
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If Religion and Politics were characters on a soap opera, Religion would be the one that goes insane with jealousy over Politics' intimate relationship with Reality, and secretly murder Politics in the night, skin the corpse, and run around its apartment wearing the skin like a cape shouting "My votes now! All votes for me! Wheeee!" -- Lagmonster
Well, the point is, if Jesus didn't mean churches to be greedy, he should have said something like 'it's good to give money to the church but you hardly need to do it if you're as poor as that woman. I'd tell her to take care of her own life first.'Hethrir wrote:I think the churches are doing the wrong thing. I read that passage to say that she has given more than the the rich people by the sacrifice she made, not that everyone should give more than they can afford.
"That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: 44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living."
I can't see how churches can justify they demands you are talking about by this scripture. I'll reiterate again that there are no NT scriptures on tithing and that OT was in a totally different context to what churches talk about today.
Busily picking nuggets out of my well-greased ass.