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At some point my struggle with the bible culminated in me making my own conclusion away from anyone else: I am done with this god.
The following years I reclaimed my life.
I was raised Hindu and it was a physiological terror. Karma can fuck a little kid up. I was scared that any little thing i did wrong would lead to disastrous consequences for me or someone close to me. I eventually left the religion after learning more about human rights violations around the world. My whole construct of karma fell apart. Nothing made sense except the fact that man made religion to control people. That became very evident when I revisited my old faith in a college class
I can only say well done and I hope you are happier and more at peace now.
As an agnostic, the bible is a great guide. It's not a rule book. So much in there has been so misinterpreted by religion that it completely guts the actual words themselves.
I spent decades taking it seriously. The occasional bit with ''yeah don't be an asshole'' isn't worth anything next to the pro slavery, pro genocide, hateful parts. Even Jesus called Samaritans dogs compared to so called pure blooded Jews, none of this is morally OK when you hold it accountable to itself as a text.
Dogs are the best though
he said he wouldn't teach or accept Samaritan disciples because that would be like feeding the dogs before feeding the children. He wasn't being nice.
Problem is that even in their original context/translations/… it’s still pretty messed up and unnecessarily evil. Or just flat out pointless.
Once you look at it for what it is besides it’s supposed “divine nature” you’re left with an amalgamation of borrowed stories, propaganda and a whole bunch of “I will now declare a thing of great importance, it’s exactly the opposite of what you thought it was…jazzhands “ kind of malarkey.
Love thy neighbour, don’t kill, don’t steal. <= you don’t need that much mystical convoluted text to convey that message. Mister Rogers will do that just fine.
Offtopic, but in case you haven't seen biblically accurate angels yet, you should.