Written thousands of years ago by ancient lunatics whose ignorance is completely understandable. Believed as truth today by morons who have no excuse for being that fucking stupid.
Written thousands of years ago by ancient lunatics whose ignorance is completely understandable. Believed as truth today by morons who have no excuse for being that fucking stupid.
In the 20th and 21st centries religious ministries no longer could rely on mandatory adherence or even sufficient peer pressure, and hence had to adjust their sermons to draw in a congregation, hence sins were for other people. Material support of the community and needy (wars against poverty and hunger) were replaced with campaign of sin calling (wars against women and gays). Even the Roman Catholic Church has veered away from charity efforts to condemn the marginalized, since that is more palatable to a dwindling parish.
Also evangelists in the 1960s like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, having recently taken a pounding regarding interracial marriage and segregation, willfully developed their ministries to form a vloc of single-issue-voters (abortion was the issue) which turned them into GOP loyalists and propelled Reagan’s 1980 landslide. From there, the rise of the corporate hegemony and the white Christian nationalist takeover of the US was inevitable.
Yup - the Southern Baptist Convention originally came out in support of Roe. Although the SBC does the typical retcon thing where they pretend they didn’t know how terrible abortion was until after Roe, that is a lie.