My father recently commented on how we never read the bible in Catholic school or in church for that matter. We had our Missal and there was plenty of scripture in the Mass but the Catechism was our bible and the Pope had the final word. Protestants are always going around quoting the bible, the literal word of god, and us former Catholics (if that is indeed possible) are left in the dust.
I was reading an online article about ISIS and one of the comments referred to Deuteronomy 13:6–10 to justify some damn thing. I had to look it up.
“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known, some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.”
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. . .a violent book, an unending thirst for blood in a religion gone mad: the crusades, the blessings of wars, warrior popes, capital punishment, corporal punishment, justifications for slavery, world-wide colonization and the genocide of natives in the name of conversion to Christianity, systemic violence toward women, the massacre of Jews and ethnic groups throughout Europe, and most recently the molestation and rape of children! I exhale.. when will it end!?
And we think ISIS is barbarous. Christianity is a horrible pursuit because it totally uses Christ to promote this awful crap. He was about compassion. The guy would have been a Buddhist if he had heard of it. Ugh.