Fox News host Sean Hannity dedicated a segment of his Thursday show to deliver a message to Pope Leo XIV, suggesting he and others at the Vatican had totally lost sight of the true meaning of the bible and its teachings.

  • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 days ago

    》 Matthew 10:34-36

    》Ignores all of the other many lines in the chapter saying not to fight

    Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Matthew 10:16

    Brother will delivef brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns before the Son of Man comes. Matthew 10:21-23

    It’s almost like cherry-picking random lines to oppose other random lines isn’t viable.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      18 days ago

      It’s almost like the book is complete nonsense, and any attempt to quote it to defend any type of behavior is fucking stupid

      I assure you that I didn’t ignore shit, my point was that it’s all contradictory

      • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        18 days ago

        You did ignore things, you were just consciously omitting text that reshape the meaning of your quote. Because, when taken in larger context, the meaning of quotes changes. Lile how language works.

        But I agree that quoting the Bible as if it were a collection of independent axioms needs to stop. I’m just not in favor of your Hammurabian approach to disproving it. Everything can look like bollocks when everyone uses shite methods of proof but for opposite positions.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          17 days ago

          I didn’t ignore shit. By this logic, anyone posting any verse is ignoring and consciously omitting the contradictions that always exist.

        • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          17 days ago

          you were just consciously omitting text that reshape the meaning of your quote. Because, when taken in larger context, the meaning of quotes changes.

          Preachers have been doing exactly that since before the Bible was codified by the council of Nicaea. And continue to do so in increasingly more outrageous ways.

          • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            17 days ago

            Yeah. That sucks.

            I’m of the belief that the Bible isn’t some living, hold text. It’s just a history book of the philosophy of Christianity, where the Old Testament is used as foundational context for the espoused philosophy in the New Testament. Pretending every word is divinely-inspired and every verse has to be Truth is weird and completely incorrect.