User blog:Rechtewig/A critique of the christian right

the christian right uses a sort of cherry-picking rigorism with the bible that allows them to entirely miss the point by focusing equally on each line. Furthermore they use a tremendously inconsistent system of reading the bible poetically or literally on the context. here are a few issues:

THE EARTH IS 2000 YEARS OLD!!!1!:
now at no point in the bible it says this. Such calculations are generally conducted through applying geneological calculations to biblical geneologies, however said calculations require a set age for biblical characters which is conspicously absent. For instance, abra(ha)m lived to be somewhere in the five-hundreds and had children at age 80 while other figures are stillborn. Thus there is no average length of the life of the biblical man which is necessary to calculate the age of the earth.

Homogay is forbidden
The quote that rightist most often pull out of their arses is in leviticus, when "sleeping with a male as with a woman" is condemned as an "abomination". Most scholars agree it is probably condemning incest or pedastry rather than strictly homoerotic tendencies. However i will use the pharisees as a comparison. Truly the christian right is more a desendant of the pharisees than of true christendom. The pharisees were an ancient jewish sect that was made notable by rigorist observance of biblical law (e.g: no homogay), which led them to be denounced as hypocrites by Jesus, for as followed in the path of the christian right, they were able to pretensiously miss the point of the bible through their obsession with it.

The parable of the workers in the vineyard
the christian right often cites the proceeding of the workers in the vineyard as justification for their endorsement of capitalism. However i think it more likely than not that Jesus was merely using a scene of everyday (and admittedly capitalistic) life as a way to explain an antithetical message. In the parables one of the most recurring motifs (the reversal of alpha and omega) ends up being used to attain equality. The first worker is humbled and the last is exalted and in that way the workers reach an egalitarian state.

will maybe work more on this