When did so many (not all) "christians" become hateful psychopaths?

[Tigress DEM]

316. Saul/Paul is not my favorite, but some of his oppression of women....

Paul's oppression of women was part of the time he lived in. Women were either harlots or protected by their men. Women were seated in the back of the sanctuary because men were supposed to be doing the heavy lifting with prayer and sacrifice etc...

1300 years later in Europe you have marriage as transferring a woman into a man's possession as property and today everyone is fighting to have the rights conferred on married persons because it's working better than other options.

The problem is that it's hard to grow into new evolutions of humanity and not lose the intrinsic value of the lessons in the Bible or even history in general because we tend to look through our current cultural lenses at the past. But we know so much more now than they knew then.

Jesus fought against the powers that be and stood with the people who were oppressed and said "Do onto others as you would have them do unto you." He encouraged us to treat people NOT as they treat me and you, but TEACH them to treat us better by being the example. Standing here in history looking back, it makes a lot of sense, but we've seen it work. It's still fairly revolutionary.

Tig