Context or CON-text?
Why do conservative christians scream "Context!" when I quote the bible's satanic commandments?
Christians continually lecture me about "context" when I quote the bible's satanic commandments, but there is no “context” in which stoning children to death is not hideously evil, no “context” in which mass-murdering babies and their mothers is not hideously evil, no “context” in which hell is not infinitely evil and unjust.
Well, perhaps CON-text.
The bible commands the worst crimes known to mankind:
Genocide
Infanticide
Matricide
Ethnic Cleansing
Slavery
Sex Slavery
The ghastly stoning to death of boys for misdemeanors and girls for non-sins like being raped and not “proving” their virginity by bleeding on their wedding nights. (Deuteronomy chapters 20-22)
While obviously no child (or any adult) should be stoned to death for any reason, it bears mentioning that the real Creator, if such an unlikely being exists, would have known that many girls don’t bleed the first time they have sex, so a commandment to stone child brides to death for not bleeding on their wedding nights is not only evil, but nonsensical.
Did an enlightened God inspire these evil commandments, or was it the Other Guy?



Thank you for this very timely post, Michael! 🙏
The 'context' (for these 'Christians' conned into the sticky old Abrahamic web of horror stories) can perhaps be found in the words of Tyson Yunkaporta:
"The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity."