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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Religion is cultish and requires people to conform to a single narrative in order to be a part of the in crowd. It's a favorite of authoritarian regimes for that reason. It's easier to control people this way. Defund education, remove science funding, takeaway women's rights, destroy the middle class... control the masses.

Great articles in Salon and the New Yorker about JD Vance, Elon Musk, and the Christian right wing pushing the narrative that empathy is a sin and somehow responsible for the downfall of society. Some Christian values right there. [/quote]

Yes, I have heard about the anti-empathy arguments coming from the "Christian" right.  They are no longer recognizable as Christians and need an new name for themselves.  They don't actually follow the teachings of Jesus.
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I will say it again...the New Testament, which is all about Jesus, no? has some horrific values in it, in addition to the selfless loving message that so many christians live by and believe. If all christians lived those tenets, we wouldn't have much of an issue, would we?  However, if you need me to, I can point you to some verses that are anything BUT loving, selfless, etc..  There was an awful lot in there that is being used by people that also believe in the Bible. And the number of people that are taking the Bible literally is growing, as the more moderate or liberal christians numbers are shrinking.

None of this even takes into account the horrors of the old testament, which has to be included in the christian faith since there are many things cherry picked from there, too.  Ten Commandments, etc.     It's getting absurd at this point. It's as someone I once heard say:  christianity is like a big book of multiple choice.  Whatever is convenient for a certain goal is used, the other stuff is thrown out.

Honestly, I'm just so sick of the whole thing at this point. Very few people are being honest anyway about the truth of the matter. 
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