For every person who does deep reflection and analysis on the bible to make it fit sensible ethical beliefs, there's a hundred more people who will just read the surface level text of misogyny and genocide. It's becoming an increasing burden to try to interpret the bible to fit our modern sensibilities and morality. How much time and energy does every new Christian need to spend to put frosting on bullshit, so they can say they have good ethics which somehow came from the bible. How much longer can religion possibly stick around in situations like this. The struggle to interpret the bible to say something nice, must come to every Christian and not everyone is prepared to meet the challenge of all that cognitive dissonance.
I've grown so bored and tired of all the "well technically, the Bible says to be nice to women and treat all as alike to God" or "Y'know the Talmud says there are six genders" or "Y'know Jesus said eunuchs are valid and blessed". So tired of looking through Jewish or Christian commentaries struggling to find those scraps from Jewish Rabbis or Christian clergy, scholars and apologists who had a good idea after reading the Bible. The true word of God should not require so much effort to not see it as invoking hate and violence. Make it make some sense at every level of understanding and interpretation. Surely a god could do that. When can we finally just replace the Bible with a new foundation that doesn't need so many levels of shaky interpretation to finally see it as saying something good?
I'm getting so sick of feeling responsible to try to find all the small pieces of good in the book used to censor me, repress me, violate my bodily autonomy, give me the fear of eternal punishment, etc. The Bible has done nothing to earn my respect. The only minutiae of respect goes to individuals who bullshitted themselves a way for the Bible to align with true morality.
Reading scripture and its many commentaries is like an addictive self-harm that I just can't stop. Trying to understand how it was used to hurt me. Trying to see if I can play by its own rules to turn them in my favor and stop the all pain.
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