| Lafiel said: well, my personal believe is that Christianity should be focussed around the idea "love your neighbor as yourself", with "neighbor" meaning every other human being along with this gem and lots of stories of Jesus sympathizing with the poor, the ill, the outcast, the weak etc there unfortunately also are some repulsive and discriminating rules and stories in the bible |
alot of those rules were based on the social context of the time. In that day the best way for your civilization to thrive was to have higher birth rates and better health.
Pork is a very dirty meat, and back then understanding on how to prepare food to eat safely was not understood. Forbid eating pork, and many of the sicknesses and diseases that can because by improperly prepared Pork can be eliminated.
Homosexuality its not good when you are trying to grow the population. In modern days we are looking for ways to slow population growth so it has no negtive impacts on society.
Polygamy is not banned by the Bible, but it is in most of the civilized world. In a day when many men were killed in battle it made sense to ensure every fertile female had a male to procreate with. In the modern world we see how detrimental it is to the women in that situation and it is outlawed. Again we are not looking for ways to maximize population growth so there is no positive reason to legalize it. Besides with freedom of sex these days people have multiple sexual partners without have to marry each one.
There are other things that when you read the Bible (particulary the Old Testament) that someone who does not understand the context of the enviroment they were written would find harsh or just wrong by today's social views.
psn- tokila
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