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ismnotwasm

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3. I've read the bible a couple of times
Sat May 31, 2014, 07:26 AM
May 2014

I'm agnostic, so I read it like a book. I was horrified. Then I started asking people about it, and found that people tend to not read it cover to cover. They cherry pick. Some of the most oft quoted "inspirational" passages are associated with some atrocity or another.

I agree about Jesus-- he was cool. I read alternative theologians like Elaine Pagels and get the political insight of how Christianity developed the way it did.

Haven't found a religion yet that doesn't have a specific opinion on out women. Usually negative, but more often contrasted, whore, chaste, selfish, self sacrificing ect.--as though there were conditions of women only.

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