Why does MAGA reject the teachings of Jesus and embrace the Old Testament instead?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Perhapas because it leans much more heavily on authoritarian, patriarchal and mysogynist dogma, positing God as the Creator but also a tyrant dictating through the say-so of tribal priest-kings.
(About whom we know virtually nothing as people, too, because we have only their own versions, with no dates and no corroboration from elsewhere, of their own religion and politics.)
Jesus taught the opposite: serving a loving, kindly God by showing love and respect to each other rather than ruling by fear - and he liked women.
The Bible-thumpers who like their sort of Levite tyrany and like to call themselves "fundamentalist Christian", miss the irony of their position. The OT books were written over several centuries long before Jesus' birth, another three centuries before the Christian faith was established in its own name (rather than becoming simply a Jewish sect), and the dictatorial attitudes that attract the "fundamentalist" are not what Jesus taught.
(About whom we know virtually nothing as people, too, because we have only their own versions, with no dates and no corroboration from elsewhere, of their own religion and politics.)
Jesus taught the opposite: serving a loving, kindly God by showing love and respect to each other rather than ruling by fear - and he liked women.
The Bible-thumpers who like their sort of Levite tyrany and like to call themselves "fundamentalist Christian", miss the irony of their position. The OT books were written over several centuries long before Jesus' birth, another three centuries before the Christian faith was established in its own name (rather than becoming simply a Jewish sect), and the dictatorial attitudes that attract the "fundamentalist" are not what Jesus taught.