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First of all, a religious text is not relevant in us court case, even if about a religious case. Secondly, Christianity as practiced today is very different an
by kmonsen 6y ago
First of all, a religious text is not relevant in us court case, even if about a religious case.
Secondly, Christianity as practiced today is very different and not something Jesus would have understood at all so in many ways the Bible and Jesus is not key to understanding American Christianity.
- aspenmayer 6y agoTo say Jesus wouldn't understand modern Christianity is presupposing the Trinity is false, isn’t it? Otherwise, Jesus is part of the tripartite godhead and is aware of everything the Tetragrammaton and the Holy Spirit are aware of, which is more than the totality of existence of space-time. Not to make this a religious discussion, just striving for a steelman interpretation of the religious logical stance.
- kmonsen 6y agoI’m not making an argument about Jesus but about his supposed followers. Anyway, the main point is that US law and the Bible are not connected. It’s still legal to eat shrimp and pork, and usury became legal when that was convenient.
- aspenmayer 6y agoI don’t mean to miss your point; however, to many people, US law and the Bible are connected. The Moral Majority[1] used and modern religious right use the Bible as justification for their social and economic policies.[2] It could be argued how Biblical their policies are, but to say they are not connected in many voters’ and believers’ minds is to misunderstand them and what they believe, religiously and politically. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority [2] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/corporate-america-invented-religious-right-conservative-roosevelt-princeton-117030 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/corporate-am...