There's another side to the cult. The one that gets people to join. They preach love and peace and tolerance. All while holding a hate book of fiction and pretending their god isn't a made-up genocidal religious maniac terrorist.

They can do that because they ignore reality. They end up funding the radical religioius terrorists, and any radical terrorists that join and want more hate - it's all waiting and set up for them.

It's not just one cult. They're all cults, and in almost the exact same way. They've been doing this crap for thousands of years, and they're good at lying.

According to Jesus none of the old laws changed. He was very clear on that.

I think that those who have read the Bible (many self proclaimed Christians have not) understand the principle that the Bible is a collection of stories that are used for interpretation of day to day life to give them a more structured moral integrity rather than cut and dry "this is what the Bible says so there is no flexibility". Life isn't a set of hard rules to follow, the Bible gives you guidance, not rules.

That said, I'm a devout atheist. Just an observation about others from someone who was forced into Christianity, questioned it, and left.

I do feel that anyone can believe what they want to, if they feel it makes them a better person or gives them a sense of community.

Yeah unfortunately when you tell the same lie a gazillion times some will actually start believing it, specially if you inject it into the minds of kids at such a young age, even if it's the dumbest shit ever

It helps if you start at your conclusions and work backwards a bit.

Thank you for the due diligence, I almost cross posted this unknowingly

The text at the bottom has duplicates, sure. Do you think that's the "beautiful" part?

that had zero idea how anything at all works other than farming, fishing, and war.

They wrote these stories 2000 years ago, what should had they know about? IDK about the whole bible but in the life of jesus story there are some good passages such as preventing a woman from being stoned. The bible wasn't entirely invented out of anything, it draw influences from other traditions and philosophies that merged in the area

tl;dr: You're a fucking dangerously infectious idiot if you follow any of those bullshit lies and hate. We, as a species, need you to get better.

FTFY

Well, just fining relevant passages to "interpret" is about half of it. Writing a stirring interpretation is the other, and it helps if you have some kind of living authority to appeal to or are saying something convenient to the audience, since a lot of other people are interpreting the bible in their own way.

The list is numbered up to 439. However at least one item was duplicated (263 & 264).