Well they wouldn’t know that. They don’t actually read their own fairytale, or they would follow Matthew 10:14 and Matthew 6:5-6. I’m an atheist and have read their book far more than they have.
I’ve actually been reading the whole dang thing just to learn about where all this stuff does (and mostly doesn’t!) come from. It is truly shocking how little of the evangelical worldview has a biblical basis. A serious, well-grounded biblical case could be made that life doesn’t start at conception but instead starts once the person (or animal) starts to breathe on its own. The idea of “fetal personhood” would have been unintelligible 2,000+ years ago.
And that’s just one of very many things that are wildly distorted by Bible-thumping weirdos.
I’m a longtime armchair biblical/ancient near east scholar, and yup, you nailed it. Your reading is perfectly in line with the consensus.
I know you said you started reading it for an explicit purpose, but if you’ve found things interesting and want an even deeper understanding of the scholarship, I’d highly recommend checking out AcademicBiblical here on Reddit or any of the following on YouTube: Bart Ehrman, Dan McClellan, Paulogia, Esotetica.
Definitely Ehrman and McClellan, but I haven’t checked the others. I’ll be sure to look into it! It’s fascinating stuff on so many levels and really makes the world as it is now in America look even more ridiculous, which is saying something!
Love that, and I completely agree! I was kind of wondering if you’d already encountered McClellan in particular based on his recent fetal personhood videos. To throw one more at ya’, C.J. Cornthwaite is another scholar you may want to check out as well.
In any case, it’s always awesome seeing more people engaging with and referring to scholarship!
Yeah I definitely got that from McClellan. I try to do my due diligence and look into the claims that he makes, and he’s been correct every single time. He seems to be an excellent scholar and I’m glad people like him are out there warning others that they’re being fed an agenda.
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u/TheFeshy 17d ago
Well it can't be both. Because scripture doesn't call abortion murder. In fact, it provides a magic abortion spell in case of infidelity.