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Christians can reason themselves into all sorts of bizarre shit based on a text from the Bible.
But the bible is not really consistent, not even the New Testament, so it is equally shared blame on the bible and the Christian for this.
The point is that you should probably not base your way of life and thinking on a 2000 year old nonsensical book about a magical wizard doing fictitious stuff.
I've read the Bible, m8, multiple times. Except for the parts in the Old Testament where it might tell ancient Israelites to harden their hearts while they genocide a really incompatible neighbor, nothing bends toward "feeling empathy is bad". In fact, the need to tell ancient Israelites to "harden their heart" shows the expected reaction was for them to be empathetic and feel pity for their enemies, and the exception had to be noted.
Keep it pushing, if you're just going to trot out "14-yo atheist" talking points.
I've read the Lord of the rings at least 6 times (all of them)... still I don't speak elfish nor am I a miner by height.
Incompatible neighbors... this means "those assholes didn't succumb to our demands" in religious speak.
What?
Both grammatically, and also towards its content as a response.
I assume this is supposed to mirror the start of my message. But my comment said "I'm certain the text doesn't say that because I've read it." You're saying "LotR (stories about a war) didn't teach me a new language nor did it transform me into a dwarf/child/some third thing generically good at mining because of their height". If we have to call that a mirror, it's a funhouse mirror at best.
I'm glad you picked up on the wordplay I used when talking about ancient Israelites genociding their neighbors tho. I was lowkey proud of that /s
Both are fiction!