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You're right, the Bible is full of contradictions, which I believe is fully on purpose, so that the devout can point to all the times God says love and say "look, my religion is one of love, my God is a god of love!" And then use that to justify committing all the other heinous act condoned in the Bible.

Weird how you're downvoted. Religion just isn't a good guide to live by but that's not your fault. Education is key.

I mean... there's a substantial difference between agreeing with a lifestyle, and persecuting that lifestyle. I assume you aren't currently picketing churches and harassing religious people, for example. The Bible is clear that an abundance of things are sinful, but Jesus consistently sets an example of loving prostitutes and tax collectors and Roman soldiers and everyone else Jews of that day hated.

So what this tweet is claiming is absolutely valid, the New Testament is immensely clear you should love everyone, and you shouldn't give "fundamentalists" a biblical pass for ignoring one of the most fundamental points the Bible makes, in hopes that they'll be willing to completely discard religion. They should be educated on their own damn book, and it's perfectly reasonable to call them on that.

Clearly homosexuality is wrong according to the bible.

There is no "the bible". It's a subjective collection of texts. While lots of people worship Paul as if he were a god, he's not actually Jesus.

Yeah, what's wrong with wanting to be a good person? Are we going back to eugenics now?

When I was in Sunday School, we were given a strict (Catholic Catechism) definition: Your neighbor is anyone you meet. It doesn't even specify any "human." My mom always brought home that point whenever animal cruelty was discussed.

Of course, my parents who taught me that lesson are still Catholic and yet super proud of my identity. Very chill with my trans spouse. Even marched with me at a local pride event.

Maybe they're the exception but "love thy neighbor" does still have tangible meaning to some folks.

"then you ain't one of mine. go on, git!" -Jesus apparently, Gospel of John chapter 13 verse 35

Wow tax collectors catching strays even 2000 years ago.

I think you're right about a lot of fundamentalists, but you need to be careful with the "knowing God's will" part because Christianity is based on the Bible and the Bible teaches you what God's will is. So, in so much as someone is basing their words on what the Bible means by what it says, then they are not taking God's name in vain. But the moment they twist what the Bible means to fit their own narrative, then they are.

When someone uses the Bible to justify their hate or bigotry, it’s very easy to throw back in their face. They never believed any of it — especially not anything that radical leftist Jesus taught — it’s a tool that represents whatever they want for their manipulative, selfish, self-centered purposes. What is written there doesn’t matter. It never did.

Watch as they dismiss you anyway, with greatest hits like:

• “That’s not what {$DENOMINATION} teaches.”
• “That’s just heretical.”
• ”So your interpretation is right but everyone else is wrong?”
• ”You’re taking it out of context”, especially after you just added context to a thing they were deliberately taking out of context.
• “Even the devil can quote scripture.”