But that’s also like, the point. The practice of scripture is about having a shared tool to make sense of things as it is the faith that that tool is indeed the right one to do so. Everyone uses it for their own ends.
I think a lot of you have a hard time understanding why religions do harm, and are a bit too prideful about knowing that they do often cause harm.
It isn’t a “gimmick,” and it is also deeply settler-colonial to suggest whatever form of knowledge production you subscribe to happens to be the “right,” one. Many cultures that didnt invent the bigotry we hate also practiced scripture, and devaluing that as a “gimmick” is not only racist, but irresponsible. If being “rational” was insulated from the context that “rationality” existed in, the white men would have fixed themselves in their salons when they thought they were too good for it all. Big surprise:
deleted by creator
But that’s also like, the point. The practice of scripture is about having a shared tool to make sense of things as it is the faith that that tool is indeed the right one to do so. Everyone uses it for their own ends.
deleted by creator
I think a lot of you have a hard time understanding why religions do harm, and are a bit too prideful about knowing that they do often cause harm.
It isn’t a “gimmick,” and it is also deeply settler-colonial to suggest whatever form of knowledge production you subscribe to happens to be the “right,” one. Many cultures that didnt invent the bigotry we hate also practiced scripture, and devaluing that as a “gimmick” is not only racist, but irresponsible. If being “rational” was insulated from the context that “rationality” existed in, the white men would have fixed themselves in their salons when they thought they were too good for it all. Big surprise:
deleted by creator
If it wasn’t gimmicky, they wouldn’t have to call it “scripture.”
Can’t find a passage justifying abolition of slavery.
“Slaves! Obey your masters!”
Nor can you find a passage justify sex equality. “As the church are slaves to Christ, so you are to your husbands”