i was just quietly cringing, but then dude started talking about the Bible & how he was an "engineering and physics student" and "no stranger to critical thinking" but when he read the Bible he found you could "jump up and down on it all you like" and it was "totally consistent"
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after the literal third time he repeated this because apparently it was so profound he was afraid we might have missed it the first two times, i snapped reader, i Remonstrated with him as a stranger on public transit i am filled with the bitter, heady venom of taboo violation
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apparently the vast textual inconsistencies are fine, though, because i wasn't talking about its ~heart~ my stop came before i could ask him whether the heart was the part where we are commanded to perform genocide upon the tribe of Amalek or all the other death penalties. sad!
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you: the Bible is a crucially important cultural work me: yeah totes you: the Bible is my personal guide in life me: uh okay if you want you: the Bible is the inspired Word of God me: lol k you: the Bible is internally consistent me: SIR I DEMAND SATISFACTION
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oh wow i almost forgot to update y'all on this HE WAS RIDING NEXT TO ME TUESDAY MORNING AND HE WANTED TO CONTINUE OUR DISCUSSION it turns out the heart of the Bible is "God is love" and YES he considers the commandment to Amalekite genocide to be compatible with this
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along with every other plague and so on because apparently when you love people very much and want SO BAD for them to learn to love each other sometimes you murder them when they don't do what you want and that's just what tough love is the Law of Fives is a hell of a drug
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