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Originally Posted by Mattman
It's always tricky commenting on a religious discussion on these forums because people generally comment their own strong view and tend to disrespect other's .... but here goes.
That lady was a total nutjob, and as stated in the thread didn't even understand how hypocritical she was acting. There was quite a lot of violence and judgement in the Old Testament. The New Testament (supposedly) recounts Jesus's attempts to stop this and says man should not judge man etc. Most nutjobs quote old testament passages to justify their bigotry.
The people who do not understand what their religion is trying to teach them, and instead rely on a literal version of the words or a deliberately skewed and manipulative version taught by their Priest, Rabbi, Mullah etc., usually ends up with dumb, radical, divisive and potentially dangerous extremist viewpoint - prejudice, hate-crimes, religious terrorism etc.
Whether the atheist are right or not about the existence of a higher being(s) it may be better to get rid of religions altogether and take away one reason for us to hate each-other.
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So what do you think about it? Are you ignoring everything in the Old Testament? I think there are branches of Christianity that claim they do that?
But I think you said you are Catholic right? They use both Testaments as far as I know