Holy shit…he almost had me converted for a second there. Amen to that dude.

I’m not Christian, but whenever I see something from Talarico, it’s always a breath of fresh air compared to all the vitriol coming from the “Christians” that are everywhere in America.

I appreciate him trying to redefine Christian values to, you know, actually be Christ like.

But this also ignores all of Christian history and all of the atrocities Christians have committed in the name of God.

Christians, for example, tied themselves into knots to find a biblical justification for chattel slavery. I say chattel slavery specifically because while slavery has existed throughout human history, the brand where a person is literally treated like livestock is a European Christian “innovation”.

This is just one out of hundreds of examples of less than ideal Christian behavior over the past two millennia.

Is the argument that they were not actually Christian? Because I think that would be a hard sell.

I also feel he’s not being completely intellectually honest when he describes heaven as a democracy because 1) what is he basing that off of? and 2) isn’t the structure in any monotheistic religion inherently authoritarian with God being the primary authority?

One nitpick - the book does talk about abortion, though not by that name. Specifically, the priest giving “unfaithful” women “bitter waters” to curse them and force a miscarriage. (Numbers 5:11-31).

Meh, that is as cherrypicked as what the Christian fascists are doing. The bible contains some horrible things which this guy is happy to ignore.

How about not living your life according to a millenia old fan fiction?

I read that initially as Tommy Talarico and was very confused at first