On scapegoating:
Matthew 26:28: “For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
Christopher Hitchens makes the point that this is the most immoral doctrine in all of Christianity:
“Is it moral to believe that your sins, yours and mine, can be forgiven by another person? Is it ethical to believe that? I would submit that the doctrine of vicarious redemption by human sacrifice is utterly immoral. The name for that in primitive Middle Eastern society was scapegoating. You pile all the sins of the tribe on the goat, you drive the goat into the desert to die of thirst and hunger, and you think you’ve taken away the sins of the tribe. The doctrine of the atonement abolishes the concept of personal responsibility on which all ethics and all morality must depend.”
On family:
Luke 14:26: “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.”
Sorry, but there’s no way I’m going to love a 2,000-year-old Palestinian messiah figure more than my own family.
John 2:4: “Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.”
Rude.
Luke 12:52: “For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.”
Matt. 10:35: “For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.”
One of Jesus’ prophesies that has unfortunately come true.
On slavery: Jesus acknowledges slavery but does not denounce it.
Matt. 10:24: “The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.”
Matt. 20:26-28: “And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.”
On honesty:
In John 7:2-14, Jesus is intentionally deceitful.
On self-mutilation: Jesus encourages self-mutilation.
Matt. 18:8: “Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.”
Matt. 5:29-30: “And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”
Mark 9:45: “And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:”
On saying “you fool”:
Jesus says that anyone who says “Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire” (Matt. 5:22), but then in Matt. 7:26 he says that “every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man.” So Jesus may be in hell.
On world peace
Matt. 10:34: “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
Luke 12:49: “I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?”
(Re-blogged from atheistdad.wordpress.com)
- Jessica
- Welcome to The Secular Gospel According to Jess! In this blog you’ll find everything from cartoons that make me laugh, to quotes that inspire me, to stories of my own personal experience when it comes to dealing with religion and pretty much everything in between. The title of my blog is intended to be ironic, as one doesn’t often hear the word, “gospel”, associated with secularism, but my intent is to preach, for lack of a better word, what I think gospel should really be about: love, rationalism, fairness, equality, human rights, science and truth. Enjoy!
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