Nothing about slavery in the 10 commandments either. In fact, the deity in the bible explicitly advocates for slavery. Read Leviticus 21. The deity talks about how to treat your slaves and beat them as long as they don't die. Also, different rules for Hebrew slaves (the deitys people). Christians are sick mother fuckers that should abandon their holy book.
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At least they fed the slaves right? A starving slave isn't going to be very productive are they?
Any wonder why over 400 TSA workers recently quit? No pay, can't even buy groceries..
And ain't it just cute, turnip gonna send in ICE agents...
Man its sad fucking times we live in right now :(
Damn bro you really owned em
People are still talking about the 10 commandments? I thought George Carlin already put this matter to rest.
The higher ed institution I work for is installing them in every classroom per a state law. Smh
LOL, I did actually link that somewhere in the comments. 👍
I mean, there's only ten of them. It's not called God's Comprehensive List of All 283092893936 Immoral Actions.
No shit, the christian bible is absolute trash. Teaches you how to treat your slaves, can rape women, sell your daughter for foreskins. Daughters get their dad drunk and rape him. People that believe that shit have ZERO place in my life, and I will judge you. You can't have critical thinking and believe skydaddy is there with a grand plan while children are being raped, people murdered and diseases running rampant. Absolute disgrace of a leader.
If it's gods will, why the fuck are you praying? Are you telling your God he's wrong? What was his plan for babies born missing their skin? Was that a punishment for their parents? Why is God hanging out on the field for your favorite team and not helping feed starving, innocent children? If you can answer these questions with a straight face, you're a terrible human being and deserve to burn for it.
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Lots of people treating the Torah as exclusively Christian in here.
The ten commandments are a old testament thing, textually written by Moses as he attempted to copy the ones God had written and that Moses shattered after the golden calf.
Christianity extended the Jewish scripture with the gospels, which include a story where God Himself Slumming As A Human was asked what the most important part of the law was, and Jesus said "love" twice.
If "love everyone as you love yourself" doesn't lead you to not abusing children, I don't think any book of good behavior is going to stop you.
People and cultures have very different ideas about what constitutes abuse of children. Some cultures would consider it abusive not to cut off parts of their children's genitals.
What's your relationship with proverbs 13:24?
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You know why? When the Bible was written, crimes against children were considered property crimes against their father. Thou shalt not steal, and thou shalt not covet, both indirectly protect kids about as much as they’re intended to. Which isn’t much.
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That's why the Republicans want them in classrooms, instead of "love thy neighbour as thyself". Because that would imply that racism is bad, and that's something they do not want to hear.
The bible is cherry picked to hell. Christians that actually read their holy book can justify racism, as their deity explicitly advocates for slavery in the bible. Slaves are property and not neighbors in their holy book. The bible is trash, and people should be wiping their asses with it instead.
But the first four are about how much of a sad loser god you are praying to.
"Thou shalt not rape" just didn't make it onto the top 10 list.
Or "Thou shalt not own slaves" Instead the bible deity explicitly advocated for it and allows you to beat their ass as long as they don't die. Bible deity is a piece of shit!
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Someone has been burned by Christians it seems
I'll confirm that for you, particularly the Pentecostals.
They were neighbors of mine within spitting distance, and yet like 2 years before my father passed away, they were trying to talk with me behind his back to acquire his land.
A part of me wanted to burn their fucking house down over that, but I'm better than that. After daddy passed, they acquired the land that I was supposed to inherit (about 1 acre), and threw out all our stuff.
I only got like less than 5% of the stuff I hoped to retrieve. Fuck, they even sold my registered to me motorhome to local meth heads for scrap when I was out of town.
So yeah, to say I was burned by Christians says the least. But it's water off my back, I seek no revenge, that would just make me worse than them.
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There sounds like there's a lot missing here, and calling your father "Daddy" is weird.
Daddy refused the term 'father', as father is God, so I was forced to call him dad or daddy.
Yes there's a bit missing here, I'd rather not go over all the abuse I went through.
Please go to therapy
Therapist died like 2 decades ago, what do with no insurance?
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Neither in Judaism nor Christianity are the Ten Commandments the only religious rules that exist.
Technically there was mention about abusing children sexually as a sin, but they changed it to being gay is a sin. Saying the quiet part out loud.
Which commandment is that? Which number, cos neither of those is in any list of the 10 commandments ive ever seen.
It's on the 5 that Moses dropped.
Well 10 commandments are part of Deuteronomy, older than christian religion, and the book was nitpicked by those who institutionalized Christianity.
Even before then. They're originally listed in Exodus. Fun fact, after the tablet smashing incident when Moses goes back up the mountain to get a new set carved in Exodus 32, several of those listed by god in the process of creating the replacements are different from the first ten. Depending on where you split the clauses, there are as many as 18 commandments between the first and the second sets.
Deuteronomy is a recap, including only the first ten, but also manages get the explanation for the sabbath wrong as compared to previous chapters. Then it goes on to claim "these are the ten commandments and god added no more" which as we just saw is an untruth.
Even in Ye Olde Testament Times, an effort was afoot to deliberately mutate the terms and conditions in order to suit the current authority.
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