My family is very religious. I believe the old testament is purely mythology mixed in with fake history. I accept that Judaism is not 5000 years old like many seem to think it is, it is actually about 2450 years old, the Hebrew people had been around longer, but a religion that resembled Judaism was not around before monotheism was adopted from the Persian Zoroastrians.
Christianity uses Judaism as a source because it was taught first to Jewish people. Although it is clear that the teachings of Jesus are taken from the Greek Mysteries, and are not Jewish in origin. This was an era where the school of Hellenized Judaism was popular, Jewish leaders like Philo of Alexandria were initiates in the Mysteries. In fact, Paul was from Tarsus, the center of the Mysteries of Mithras from 390 BC until the 1st century AD when it was introduced to Rome; if Paul himself wasn't an initiate, he would still, at least, be very familiar with the tradition of the Mystery religion. I actually feel it is a shame that Christianity has lot of that old Testament stuff dragged into it, because a lot of it is evil, and much more of it is just plain silly - and of the sort of superstitious material that no rational thinking human being would believe.
My family is Christian, but we don't acknowledge Yahovah of the old testament as being the true God. Rather we see him as a deceiver, a false God; the imperfect son of Sophia. Jesus and Sophia are part of the Pleroma, the totality of God. Sophia manifested herself in the world as being the souls of humanity, and Jesus manifested himself as the logus - the enlightening word sent to save the souls of humanity, and bring us back to the totality of the true God. If you look at Yahovah in the bible, he is a God jealous of other Gods, he is warlike, and has ridiculous rules that people believed they should follow - obviously Jesus in the bible was against this.
Anyway, there is nothing in the new testament, or true Christian belief that opposes evolution. It is is a fact that organisms adapt and evolve, it is only rational to accept that evolution occurs. Those people who refuse to accept it because they believe the old testament, are believing mythology over rational thought. Christianity is about enlightenment, about love. Christianity is not about declaring that evolution is wrong, yelling at gay people, supporting political reforms that allow the rich to get richer, and the poor to get poorer, and supporting warfare - all of that sort of stuff is very much opposed by the bible - if you believe this stuff, you are not a true Christian, but just a confused fan.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
