Republican: "You can't call us out by quoting the Bible. We own Christianity."

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5. Having been married to one of those "conservative" Christians,

I can tell you that they don't actually read the Bible. They go by what their pastors tell them is in the book. They pick and choose parts, paraphrase and reword it until it fits whatever meme is deemed acceptable. They also mainly look to the Old Testament, which I was taught in Sunday school was the book Jews lived by, but that Christians had abandoned to follow the Messiah's teachings.

I had many a discussion with my then-husband about the crap he came home and spouted off to me, daring him to show me where it said that in the Bible. He could not. I could go to the chapter/verse and show him it was in fact exactly the opposite meaning than what his pastor had spent hours/days/weeks lying to him about the "Good Word".

Considering that every bit of that mess reputed to be God's word was stolen from all the pagan religions that had gone before it, I don't see why anyone has any use for it at all. Don't even think about all this supposed "God's word" crap got left out over the centuries. If it's the sky man's own words, why wasn't it deemed good enough to be in the book? Maybe because it didn't support those who were even then using this "new" religion to control people for the benefit of the leaders?