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Originally posted by Kadath
You're casually disregarding an entire book of the bible, in fact the significantly larger one. If the Old Testament is more hebrew scripture than christian doctrine, then the Ten Commandments aren't supreme christian law, are they? What I am saying is this, and only this: All religions (and religous texts, specifically) have flaws, things that thinking people should eschew. People who don't do that, who cling to the letter of the law rather than the spirit are ass clowns.
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Actually, you can disregard an entire book of the bible in this case. Pretty much all christians belive that Jesus' death signifioes the sealing of a new covenant with God, replacing the old covenant marked by things like dietary regulations and complicated rules about ritual clenliness. Christians still accept the lessons in these books as important, but when they are specifically contridicted by Jesus they don't count anymore.
The prime examples of this are rules about the Sabbath, Dietary laws, and rules about ritual clenliness. In all of these cases Jesus and his disciples clearly break the laws of Moses, are challenged by the Pharisees, and Jesus says take a hike.
Obviously a commandment to hate all oter religions and a commandment to love your neighbor are contradictory, particularlly when the neighbor in Jesus' story is a Samaratin, someone of a somewhat different religion, and when Jesus shows love for gentiles (the story of the centurion). So in this case, Christians go with what Jesus says and love everyone, including people they think are going to hell. Or at leaast they are supposed to
