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Luke doesn’t see Jesus’s death as a sacrifice so God will forgive humans for their sins, but rather a key example of how sinful humans are–they killed God’s prophet! If you want to be forgiven, you have to turn back to God, but don’t need a sacrifice, according to Luke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdtRG4QTLNs
Speaker Johnson made bad Biblical arguments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM5ueJA3p1w
Some Biblical heroes actually did horrible things, but they are praised in the Bible because they were obedient to God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J-axlkFbdo
The Bible doesn’t take a position on abortion. Where it talks about the accidental killing of a fetus, it does so suggesting the fetus is property rather than having the value of a human life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9szhookaT8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cq29jLEiHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhLcD2PT8D4
While the Bible refers to homosexual acts, it does not refer to homosexuality, meaning a sexual preference for those of the same sex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoF4HyIcrJE
All Christians pick and choose what to take from the Bible and how to interpret it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmDafl_kmqk
A version of Christian nationalism believes that Christianity is a pro-war religion that supports strong nationalist policies that protect Christianity and what it views as traditional life. It is more focused on defeating the enemy than on love. It is more about militaristic and capitalist ideology, than the words of Jesus in the Bible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wouIJDFarpU
Why were the gospels so late? Most early Christians could not write. Some thought that Jesus was coming back very soon, so didn’t see the need to write this down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=768D9sqYdE4
Paul’s Bizarre Views on Salvation: Exploring the Apostle’s Contradictory Explanations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmelkprM3w8
“Texas has become the latest state to pass a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. The bill, which is already being legally challenged and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster, is part of a recent trend of red states attempting to inject religious texts into the classroom.”
https://reason.com/2025/05/30/texas-ten-commandments-bill-is-the-latest-example-of-forcing-religious-texts-in-public-schools/