Jesus was not a nice man

[sarahmichigan]

I'm sorry, but Jesus was not a nice guy. He was a fucker. I know a lot of New Agers want to believe that all the awful teachings in the Bible are confined to the Old Testament or to the teachings of Paul. But according to the New Testament, Jesus wasn't all love and light, and he even contradicted himself a bit.

-He said he came to bring a sword, not peace.
-He advocated disowning your family once you became a follower.
-He suggested cutting off body parts to keep yourself from sinning.
-He said that looking at another person with lust was as bad as committing adultery (Thought Police extraordinaire!).

So, if you are a "Cafeterian" and like to uphold the nice teachings in the Bible and ignore the not-so-nice ones, fine. Just don't try to tell me what a loving, peaceful teacher Jesus was.

What do you really know about what the Bible says?

http://www.ffrf.org/quiz/bquiz.php

Comments

[bernmarx.livejournal.com]

Some of the ffrf's answers are biased, either willfully or out of their own ignorance. The most blatant of the part of the quiz I took was the Exodus reference to killing witches. Exodus was deliberately mistranslated by King James; the original was closer to "soothsayer" or "dream interpreter" -- which is ironic in itself, since Joseph of the Technicolor Dreamcoat was a dream interpreter, and was much loved by God.

Christianity's appeal, IMO, is in its contradictions: Since anyone can justify their beliefs (be they puritan or hedonist, judgmental or all-loving, misogynist or egalitarian) with the correct combination of verses, it's a one-size-fits-all/none religion. If you follow every single verse literally, the contradictions are undeniable.

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

Oh, they're certainly biased. I kind of doubt it's ignorance since Dan Barker was a former fundamentalist preacher and they're big on their Bible reading.

[bernmarx.livejournal.com]

Now on another list someone who is normally a total twit know-it-all who knows nothing, but who is actually probably fairly reliable on Judaism (being from a strong Jewish background himself), is suggesting that "witch" is indeed to correct translation, based on Rabbinical study. So I think I'll defer to him and at least move my claim above into "?" territory. :)