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If a human can choose how to interpret holy text however they want and there isn’t an immediate response from a diety for interpreting them wrong, the texts must not really matter.

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  1. maybe there is no “wrong” way to interpret the text
  2. maybe your view of the response as only immediate is too limiting
  3. just playing devil’s advocate here since you made some pretty big assumptions
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maybe there is no “wrong” way to interpret the text

If the intended interpretation of a text is “respect women” and you instead interpret the text as “you can own women”, then you have interpreted the text incorrectly.

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but there is no way to know what the “intended” interpretation is. and often interpretations beyond the original creator’s intent are still valuable and valid

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I mean, sort of?

Jesus flipping tables and scolding merchants is cool, whether he’s the son of God or not.

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Cool in concept.

Problem is Jesus is just a fairy tale, like King Arthur or Robin Hood.

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Robin Hood, also cool.

Arthur, naked apologia for feudalism 2/10 would not endorse.

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Imagine if someone became a really popular influencer pushing similar teachings as Jesus, and just started raising shit with their modern millions of followers. Be an interesting WP prompt

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Conservatives would literally call him a communist

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If Jesus was alive today, he’d be crucified again by the Religious Right.

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If only certain things matter, then nothing matters. I prefer a God who lets us be free.

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Many religions start out promoting freedom, and evolve to forbidding things and actions

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That’s normal: a free society has laws, even anarchism has rules. Freedom is not anomie.

The problem is that many religions, instead of proposing rules in order to better one’s spiritual life, or instead of thinking of then as a means to an end, make rules an end in themselves. Rules can be freeing, but if they’re their own end, they become confining.

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Does your preference matter?

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