Ben Shapiro chose to go after Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde. Unfortunately, he chose to do so by making up facts about history and Christian theology in a nasty, dishonest, bitter tirade, claiming she spoke absolute nonsense wokeness
when she asked for mercy for the weak, and made a series of claims about what is and isn’t in the Bible.
Unfortunately for Ben Shapiro, that is, because a scholar of the Bible, Dan McClellan, responded with a savage multiple skewering. It’s good to see.
It’s enlightening to see how little Ben “facts not feelings” Shapiro cares about facts.
Christianity was the born out of a ascetic doomsday cult. It’s founders probably didn’t care about sex or gender at all since all that was going to become moot when their Gawd destroyed the world.
EDIT” Its founders…
Mark 10:21, Luke 12:32-33, Luke 14:33, Luke 18:23, Matthew 19:20-21, Matthew 6:24-25
Sell all you have and give to the poor. Jesus commands. You obey! These commands are the punch line of Jesus, who starts out by commanding following the ten commandments. The commands these Christians pretend don’t apply to them.
It is time to start holding these supposed Christian’s feet to the fire. Every time they bray at us, demand they follow the Bible and the commands of Jesus to the letter.
Matthew 6:5-6. No praying in public. Matthew 5, no religious oaths. Like the Pledge Of Allegiance with it’s “under God”. Imagine if every time one of these yappers sounds of swarms of atheists demand these braying fools follow the commands of Jesus to the letter. This would take all the fun out of this nonsense.
John 14:15
“If you love me, keep my commandments”.
Yes, put those christianists feet to the fire, to live up to their (claimed) beliefs.
It’ll need to be an “act of faith”, or IOW, an Auto da Fe.
Light ’em up.
I also like Acts 4:31-5. God commands Christians live as religious communists. See Acts 2:43-44.
All these Christian right wingers fulminating about socialism.
“All these Christian right wingers fulminating about socialism.”
That’s because Karl Marx said some nasty things about religion.
Ben Shapiro discussing the New Testament?
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Yeah, I noticed that too, I just didn’t want to be the one to bring it up.
If Jesus made an appearance today, the Maga crowd would be first in line to crucify him all over again.
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They’d love his position on divorce and how non-Christians are going to hell, though.
Akira, well, nobody can be wrong all the time (though Trump sure does his damndest).
Which underscores one of the (many, many) problems with trying to use the Bible to make social policy: It is so wide open to interpretation, you can literally find Biblical support for pretty much any position you want to take. You can quote it both for and against capitalism, both for and against the death penalty, both for and against abortion rights, both for and against gay rights. Tell me what position you want me to take on which issue and I’ll find you a Bible passage to back it up.
Abraham Lincoln made exactly that point in his Second Inaugural address. Talking about both North and South, he said:
“Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered—that of neither has been answered fully.”
Woke seems to be the label the mentally unsound far-right applies to anything that scares them.
Disregarding the religious language, this basically says “talk is cheap” and nobody needs to hear that message more than the conveniently religious.