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Religion

MineralMan

(148,483 posts)

9. Old Testament Legalism Sucks!

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Mon May 27, 2019, 08:55 AM

May 2019

Far too many fundamentalist Christian churches and denominations cling to the ancient rules and laws from the Old Testament, except for the ones they habitually break. Those behaviors have been deemed to be OK.

What all that legalism causes is a tendency to attach whatever ancient text people want to believe to anyone they don't like for some reason. When that happens to a child, as in this case, it can destroy someone's life.