The Christian Bible as a whole isn't *that* long a book if it's your one sacred text that you're supposed to spend your whole life studying and basing your sense of morality and ethics on But for years I was like the only person I knew who could say I'd "read the whole Bible"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Forcing you to make it through the whole Bible in one year was this challenge my church's Bible study set for everyone that most people frankly didn't even bother to pretend not to cheat through Reading an individual book of the Bible *as a book*, straight through, is haaaard
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
The primary way evangelicals "read" the Bible, as prooftexts in fortune-cookie snippet form, is such total utter bullshit It's the most disrespectful thing you can do to any text, much less a "sacred" one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
In hindsight I'm so actively angry at the kind of shit they did to indoctrinate us in Sunday school "Sword drills" (based on the Word of God being the "sword of the Spirit" in Ephesians 6:17) where you just rote memorized Bible verses as a challenge to get candy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
And it's not even the rote memorization that gets me It's that it's an *arbitrary list of verses collated by the teacher* Random one-line snippets from a dozen different documents written hundreds of years apart in wildly different contexts that all contain the word "love"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Like oh my fucking God Out in the secular world we talk about people who buy books of quotable quotes and just memorize "quotes about the brutality of war" to bust out and sound cool instead of ever actually reading the whole book the quote came from
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Well they were raising whole generations of kids to be that kind of shallow dumb asshole, about their most "sacred" text Because they actively discourage you genuinely thinking and asking questions about what the books mean instead of accepting what the pastor says they mean
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
My pet peeve is "stop using Jesus to contradict St. Paul they're equally the word of God" because first off if they're equally the word of God why do they contradict each other and secondly if they're equal why are we default going with Paul?
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Replying to @SiobhanFedelm @arthur_affect and
Yeah, though note that we don't have *Jesus*, we have Matthew/Mark/Luke/Paul quoting Jesus, so there is at least some remove there.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @SiobhanFedelm and
The conceit of the "red letter Bibles" always vaguely annoyed me, what with acting like Jesus' words in the Gospels actually are his firsthand words and not someone telling us what they remember him saying
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Also because for whatever reason they directly devalue the Old Testament/Tanakh by treating Jesus' words in the NT as special but not any of God's words from before
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Except the ones they want to remain special because it's very convenient for them if they are
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