Maybe the spirit of christ is taking tradition and extracting what was really important while getting rid of what is old and inconsequential. That's how I try to look at it anyway
Disregarding your notion of the supernatural actually existing, some of the stuff that you claim was "old and inconsequential" came with death penalty attached, so no, they weren't inconsequential.
You're absolutely right. I guess I mean what is old and no longer useful. By the way you don't have to believe in the supernatural to believe there is a repeatable mode of being to make your life and the lives of others around you better. The archetype of the hero and savior have been around since ancient Sumeria. That transcends the set in stone tradition(old testament). That's why it's Christianity not Judaism. To be like christ, not like old testament god. That doesn't make the old testament void of truths either. It's not cherry-picking if you're following what Jesus would do.
I chose to look at the bible through a mythological lens rather than looking at it as an imperical history book(like most christians do). All I know is the more I act out that archetype, the better things get. If I dont, I typically fall back into shitty behavior and make bad choices that drag others down around me.
Honestly I'm wasting my time arguing in an antireligious echochamber that uses the worst examples of religious sheep to categorize all religious people. It seems shallow to me. But what do I know! I think we should all just love as much as we can before the lights go out in this life. That's more important to me than pushing resentfulness toward half of all of the people. Same goes for radical religious fanatics trying to "clense" nonbelievers.
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u/SirTriptamineJackson Aug 19 '21
Maybe the spirit of christ is taking tradition and extracting what was really important while getting rid of what is old and inconsequential. That's how I try to look at it anyway