This article is one of many that got almost no readers when I first posted it at the beginning of my Substack sojourn, but now that I have many more readers, it’s time for a repost so new people can read it.
CLADIVS AMERICANVS: Platonic thought is the reason the New Testament is incongruent and incompatible with the Old Testament.
A bunch of morally hysterical Greeks made an addendum to the Tanakh and made up some bullshit about Jesus being the source of Absolute Truth.
I love the OT. God puts many a tribe to the edge of the sword. Hell, he even genocides nearly all of humanity during the Great Deluge.
There is nothing in the Old Testament that even remotely suggests that murder is a sin if the victim is not Jewish or is being a dick (e.g. not obeying God).
The OT in many ways has a better understanding of human nature. Have you read the Epistles? BORING!!! Now the book of Ecclesiastes and Job is some fine (((literature))) LOL.
This is interesting but I still don't like the OT. You end up…
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