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As much as I appreciate when Christian liberals try their best to make Christianity a better thing, I have to let yall know that you changing the interpretation is the same as conservative republican Christians changing the interpretation.
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Anonymous 11w

Honestly I’m of the opinion that most religion is just a somewhat blank slate that people can project whatever they want onto to give a metaphysical rationale for why X is good and Y is bad. Arguing from it is just intellectually lazy

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Anonymous 11w

“This isn’t what Jesus stood for” and what? That’s not gonna hook someone who believes Jesus stood for their beliefs either. “My God loves gay people” and yet, other people believe their God doesn’t. If Christianity can be so easily changed to fit the circumstances, maybe we should hold what is said in the Bible as Devine words or work, and should look at these things from their legal and ethical perspectives. Arguing about where “morals” or what “morals” matter isn’t getting anyone anywhere.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

exactly.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

just as anyone can take any meaning from any other book, religious texts do so too, bc they’re fucking books and not encyclopedias

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

Honestly I’d argue it’s substantially more prevalent in religious text. Someone can read, say, Animal Farm and have a correct reading in the sense they understand Orwell’s intent with the book. Sure, they could come away with a different interpretation, but there is a reading that is intended by the author. Religious texts don’t really have that, and are often self contradictory. There’s no one “correct” or intended way to interpret it, so there’s not really any wrong answers

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

that’s true too, bc we don’t have the authors intention also written down. There’s no way for a guy who wrote a part in the bible to go “no, you got it wrong”. Which makes it more prevalent to me that we shouldn’t hold these texts as high as we do. Bc we could’ve got it all wrong. And no one can truly say they know it more than you, you can read the origin text in the original language and still not get it.

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