The answer to the oldest question in the universe. :)

Re: your last paragraph - reminds me so much of how Fassbender's character in 12 Years A Slave used the Bible to justify slavery.

Hahahahahahhaa

His comment history includes such gems and signs of intelligence as:

"Who is the victim here? The whore girlfriend who was perfectly willing to sleep with a racist old man for money?"

"Decades of feminism and women are unhappier than ever. No amount of Prozac will ever cure that, ladies. What you need is to fulfill your…

Great post :)

Seconded!

Rainbow sherbet wouldn't quite have the same effect, I agree.

I know. It certainly reads like a book of its time, but books of that time aren't exactly the ones rational people turn to for moral guidance today.

I looked it up and apparently it was a guy acting. Best vid ever, either way :D

I think I love you xDDDD*

*And ice cream guy. Can't forget the ice cream guy.

In b4 howling evo-psych-brandishing MRAs

Fair point. As I said, I'm not American and we don't really have a similiar kind of "religious right" with as muc himpact here in the UK.

Interesting interpretation, thanks :)

So you just decide which Gospel to follow based on whichever makes most sense? Seems legit. (I'm still going through the NT at the same time as doing the OT, so haven't read the Gospel of Mark in full yet). Is this just a thing only liberal Christians do, or most of them? :)

What kind of toys?

Ah, I see. Yeah, that makes sense. And (without being offensive) the working class are less likely to be highly educated, IIRC (not that it's their fault necessarily, ofc, I understand university fees are very high in America) which makes it more likely that they won't have a deeper understanding of these kinds of…

I can see why God might hate cigarettes, TBF. They increase the risk of everything from lung cancer to heart disease.

Are we still talking about Christians specifically here?

Thanks. I've often heard Christians quote other parts of the Bible (like the bits about adultery etc) and even the liberal ones accept those, though, so where do you draw the line? (Apart from not being an asshole, which seems to be universally accepted)

That's interesting. I should probably mention, I'm British so…

Exactly. I'm working my way through the Old Testament right now, and the way "God" thinks and acts sounds an awful lot like the way someone of that time period would have thought and acted, not an omnipotent being.