MAGA: Cancelling student debt is immoral. This is why we need a government based on the Bible.

DEUTERONOMY 15:1: At the end of every seven years you must cancel all debts. This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel the loan he has made to his fellow Israelite. He shall not require payment from his fellow Israelite or brother, because the LORD's time for canceling debts has been proclaimed.

MAGA: Not that part of the Bible

MAGA: Transgender is a mental illness and mutilating their bodies is immoral. This is why we need a government based on the Bible.

MATTHEW 19:12 : "There are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the glory of the Kingdom of Heaven."

MAGA: Not that part of the Bible

MAGA: Abortion is always immoral under any circumstance. This is why we need a government based on the Bible.

NUMBERS 5:16 :The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord. Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. Here the priest is to cause the woman to drink the bitter water and say —“May this bitter water enter your body so that either your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”

MAGA: Not that part of the Bible

MAGA: We need to bring prayer back in public schools. This is why we need a government based on the Bible.

MATTHEW 6:6 : Do not pray in public. Instead, when you pray, go to your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is unseen.

MAGA: Not that part of the Bible

@Lana MAGA : We need to establish traditional Bible gender roles!

GALATIANS 3:28 : There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

@Soozcat @Lana I agree — they seem rather embarrassed by the Old Testament, even though if they believe in the Trinity all the horrible genocide, slavery, and sexual assault done by Yahweh is also done by Jesus.

(That said, Galatians is in the New Testament.)

There’s a YouTube channel, Joel Reads Bible, where an atheist is reading the whole Bible verse by verse starting with Genesis. It’s pretty eye-opening how heinous much of it is:

https://m.youtube.com/@JoelReadsBible/videos

@poleguy @Soozcat @Lana I was raised Catholic, so the details of the Bible weren’t a priority when I grew up. 🙂

And I certainly didn’t mean to suggest you thought those passages were models for morality. (No one should, of course, but as I’ve seen more and more hardcore “professional” religious apologists, I’ve been appalled at how many of them try to justify what seem like obvious atrocities.)

@michaelgemar @Soozcat @Lana I was raised/am Catholic too, but in my family we actually read the whole bible through. Throughout my life, my father would read it through and then start at the beginning again.

I also went to daily Mass for years. It's surprising how much of the bible is actually covered in the readings at daily+Sunday Mass over the two/three year cycle.

https://www.catholic.com/qa/percentage-of-the-bible-in-the-lectionary

It's a bit light on old testament, but lots of that stuff is boring history of kings and wars. :-)