kain_kusanagi said:
The whole bible isn't as straight forward as the 10 Commandments. The English version is a translation of a translation. Most of the new bible is stories meant to teach a lesson about how to treat each other or how to be more like God. The new testament replaces many of the teachings of the old testament. Different churches interpret it differently. It's not a matter of finding loop holes or picking and choosing. It's a matter of deciding what it means to you. The religious people of the world are not secret atheists. They are just regular flawed people who have faith. That just doesn't make sense to you because you don't have that faith.
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Interpretation wasn't his point. He was saying that most religious people are hypocrital, because they claim to follow Christian teachings yet many times do the opposite, probably without even realizing sometimes. For example... The Bible says homosexual activity is an abomination and that those who engage in that behavior be put to death. It also says you cannot mix cotton and linen, and that if you work on the Sabbath you be stoned to death. How many Christians in westernized civilization approve of stoning people to death for working on Sunday or killing homosexuals? Essentially none.
If someone says they believe in the Bible literally, then they are either criminally insane, or they've never actually read the Bible.
