• Omega@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m always interested in how religious texts are explained away.

    Like with abortion, the Bible clearly states that life begins at the first breath. It’s actually a bit extreme in that causing a miscarriage is explicitly a loss of property and NOT murder. And everyone knows about how they give guidance for am abortion in case of infidelity.

    But it’s always explained that the Bible uses some vague identifier for an unborn, and the rest is just kind of ignored.

    So, what’s the explanation for the pedophilia in the Quran? Just different times? She wasn’t actually that young? They didn’t actually have sex? Or just how “dare you ask about that”?

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      10 months ago

      A lot of times people who grow up with a given religious culture don’t realize how fucked up it actually is.

      Like, let’s be real - the belief that a 12 year old girl gets knocked up by her unborn child’s alter ego as God in order for that child to get tortured and killed in order to appease his own blood lust in place of your ass is whack as shit.

      Even at the time there’s a record of Romans being weirded out by the tradition of the Eucharist and the notion of eating the body and drinking the blood of an incarnated god.

      Being raised or indoctrinated into a thing goes a long way towards normalization.