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Ok, I can see why you would pick up on things like the golden rule (which pre-dates Christianity) - love your neighbor and so on - but can I take it that when Jesus, for example, instructs on how hard to beat your slaves - sanctions the brutal beating to the point of fatal injury - or when Jesus sends demons into a herd of pigs, killing them as they run off a cliff and drown - or when he says that he has come to destroy families by making family members hate each other - "come not to send peace, but a sword." - or when he condemns entire cities to horrific deaths and to the eternal torment of hell because they didn't follow his preaching - when you see these less appealing things do you rule them out, simply brush them off as metaphor, lay authorship elsewhere or just ignore them ?
There is a point I am trying to get at here !
Your words not mine.
My contempt for religion extends why beyond the lunatic fringe beyond it's 'worst applications', moderatism brings with it it's own inherent problems. I hold contempt for the whole spectrum of supernatural belief.