I was raised south baptist. We sang “father Abraham… had many sons… Many sons had father Abraham…”
More recently I read some of Genesis for myself. Father Abraham’s wife could not conceive, so he raped her slave instead. The slave ran away. God sent an angel to tell the slave to return to Abraham and have his rape baby, which she did.
It’s not the only time rape is condoned in the bible. Horrible book.
YES! Thank you for calling that out. It is so frustrating. Submitting completely to arbitrary authority is not moral. It’s one way we get people proudly advocating for homophobia, rape, genocide, and more.
Human morality is something we evolved to help us survive. It changes with us, as our circumstances change. IMO, using baseless claims about supernatural punishments and rewards to manipulate people into harming themselves and others is insanely immoral. That ain’t love.
I am staggered by the amount of grown adults who take the bible seriously. It’s deadly, stupid nonsense.
I remember having many discussions with some strident xtians about how that’s not really a thing, or that xtianity doesn’t really count.
It still makes me laugh.
I was raised south baptist. We sang “father Abraham… had many sons… Many sons had father Abraham…”
More recently I read some of Genesis for myself. Father Abraham’s wife could not conceive, so he raped her slave instead. The slave ran away. God sent an angel to tell the slave to return to Abraham and have his rape baby, which she did.
It’s not the only time rape is condoned in the bible. Horrible book.
The really, really wild thing is when xtians have the audacity to tell someone that, without (their) god, there is no way to have morality.
YES! Thank you for calling that out. It is so frustrating. Submitting completely to arbitrary authority is not moral. It’s one way we get people proudly advocating for homophobia, rape, genocide, and more.
Human morality is something we evolved to help us survive. It changes with us, as our circumstances change. IMO, using baseless claims about supernatural punishments and rewards to manipulate people into harming themselves and others is insanely immoral. That ain’t love.
I am staggered by the amount of grown adults who take the bible seriously. It’s deadly, stupid nonsense.