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Re:Canadians consider certain religions damaging to society:... by car_analogy on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:43PM (#31078556)
> Perhaps if they followed their purported beliefs rather than their tribal nature?

The Old Testament is extremely tribal, and commanded the Chosen to exterminate several competing tribes. I'd rather it not be followed too closely:

1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Numbers 21:3 The Lord gave the Canaanites over to Israel, who "completely destroyed them and their towns."

Numbers 31:17-18 God commanded Moses to kill all of the male Midianite children and "kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man."

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Re:Canadians consider certain religions damaging to society:... by jleyank on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:58PM (#31078664)
Not being Muslim, I can't state the relationship between the Koran and the Old Testament, but any contradiction in the former would be taken in preference I assume. I thought the New Testament was a replacement for the Old - certainly the teachings disagree with what you include. Although between "them" and worshipping money it's hard to find people who actually follow New Testament dogma. Hard for people to "turn the other cheek" and "treat others...", and that negative stuff about rich men and needles.
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Re:Canadians consider certain religions damaging to society:... by 1over137 on Monday April 18, 2022 @09:51PM (#31079023)
>I thought the New Testament was a replacement for the Old

Nope. Otherwise why is the Old Testament still in the bible?

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Re:Canadians consider certain religions damaging to society:... by pokey00 on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:15PM (#31079155)
Context? Different Christian religions and people have varying ways of reconciling the two. I (raised Catholic) was taught essentially that with Jesus's death, the old rules went out the window; all that goofy shit God used to command the Israelites to do didn't need to happen anymore because Jesus's death made up for it. So the Old Testament isn't super relevant outside of providing the context for the New Testament.
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Re:Canadians consider certain religions damaging to society:... by 1over137 on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:22PM (#31079193)
Other Catholics disagree with your interpretation: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/did-jesus-r...
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Re:Canadians consider certain religions damaging to society:... by dragonwriter on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:26PM (#31079211)
Pointing out a diversity of viewpoints among Catholics is a poor way of refuting the existence of a diversity of viewpoints on the same point within the wider space of Christianity.
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Re:Canadians consider certain religions damaging to society:... by pokey00 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @01:47PM (#31086381)
like the other response pointed out, that's not my interpretation- there's a diversity of viewpoints, and that's the interpretation that I was taught by the Church I went to and by my parents.

I commented to expand on what looked like a really simplistic dismissal of an honest question... and you tell me there's disagreement (ie multiple viewpoints)... which was the entire point of my post.

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Re:Canadians consider certain religions damaging to society:... by forum_ghost on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:59PM (#31079368)
How is Buddhism any better?

"oh your life sucks today because of circumstances beyond your control? oh well, you must've deserved it in your previous life by being a total dickhead,you scumbag!"

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