CharlesSmith
Because it requires logical though processes applied to the bible, and that shit is socialized out of religious folks when they're kids.

CharlesSmith
thought processes.

facek
To a Literalist Christian the bible represents the source of absolute morality, and it is the sacred word of god etc etc etc. If anything is wrong in there it would imply that God is not perfect and their imaginary source of morality is defunct. All this means they will defend the most ridiculous parts of the bible indefinitely and spin more ad hoc reasoning than you though possible.

The good news is these most rigid christians have a better chance of deconverting whenever they're separated from their family and church, all that constant reinforcement business.

kiint
thought possible

joyofdiscord
By "parts of the Bible," I'm assuming you mean "all of the parts of the Bible" since none of it was written in a modern context, and only a few the vaguest platitudes it has to offer can possibly be thought to be absolutely applicable.

At least the hardline Christians have a certain degree of consistency in their beliefs. They realize that problematic parts of their Holy Book are in fact problems that need to be addressed and defended in some way.

Hip, liberal, wishy-washy Christians that just brush off the vast repugnant majority of their sacred texts might as well just go all the way and admit their Bible is a glorified bag of fortune cookies that they cross-stitch onto pillows when it sounds nice, and if their magical sky-daddy actually exists, he apparently isn't powerful or moral or concerned enough to put together a book that manages to get across the point "slavery is bad."

Fundamentalists deserve a lot more credit for consistent thinking and reasoning than the hippy Christians, who tend to have all the same superiority complexes about being extra-moral and having magical special friends (and often heaping helpings of concealed fag-hate and misogyny) but without any meaningful reflection on the logical conclusions of their perverse belief system.

dieudonne
joyofdiscord needs to read some a better class of liberal Christian theology if that feeble pap is all that he has heard. Shelby Spong springs to mind.

Great video though.

SteamPoweredKleenex
"Fundamentalists deserve a lot more credit for consistent thinking and reasoning than the hippy Christians..."

You are aware that fundamentalism is a relatively recent phenomenon, with such concepts as "The Rapture" having barely been around for 200 years, right?

They also come up with thoroughly ludicrous concepts such as "prayer shields."

memedumpster
Because it's not about the Bible, or slavery, and all about this person's genes trying to replicate. I doubt consciousness even plays a role in Christianity.

Syd Midnight
Yeah geez it's just a mental virus didn't you read "Snowcrash"?

fluffy
It's just hard to take a chipmunk seriously about religion.

oddeye
PS I am 100% confident that I would pick death over slavery, even if it was for a fairly nice person. I've discussed this with my wife and she has also agreed to pick death should the event ever occur.

I would rather die a man then live as an animal.