This pissed me off so fucking much when people defend Christianity by saying that all of the bad shit is in the Old Testament and that the New Testament is totally fine.
1 Corinthians 6:9
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,"
Gay people and gender non-conforming people are not allowed in to heaven
1 Peter 3:1
"Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands;"
It's still an extremely misogynistic book even in the new testament
Romans 1:26-27 ... 32
"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
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Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
Both homophobia and misogyny
I could go on and on, and I probably will in the comments, but it's pretty fucking clear that all the nasty bigoted shit in the book just doesn't go away in the New Testament
You cannot separate the bigotry from the Bible. The Bible is very clear that you cannot pick and chose, that you have to accept the full book or none of it, you can't just take the verses you like and still be Christian. To be a good Christian who follows the entire Bible you must be bigoted
it's weird to stake out this hill and die on it.
You have one flattened perspective on one religion and an axe to grind, but you're bringing nothing interesting to the table, but a whole lot of bile- and for whom, exactly? is this an exercise in your own catharsis? It just looks like emotionally repressed anger at a target that's not actually the source of your woes, big or small.
Christianity is just very personal to me as I was raised in a Christian household. I was home schooled and thought young Earth creationism and other such bullshit
I was denied the ability to transition after I came out to my parents because of Christianity. I could have started HRT at 16 when I came out but instead I had to at 22 after getting free of my family. Christianity and the bigotry based in it has forever caused me pain
I can relate at least on some level. Never had to deal with the transphobia angle because I'm cis, but I remember spending some time terrified that I would be tortured for all eternity because I couldn't bring myself to believe that the Earth was 6000 years old.
I have a really bad anxiety disorder and I blame at least some of it on Christianity. I've known that I'm bi for a very long time and I remember feeling so afraid that I was going to go to hell just cause I liked guys and there was nothing I could do about it