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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God." - Leviticus 19:9, 10

[–] MehBlah 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Leviticus Its in the pick and choose portion of the king james opinion of the bible.

[–] Drivebyhaiku 5 points 1 day ago

Well it is "the Rules of the Tribe of Levi" canonically speaking they are laws made not by God but by a bunch of priests. It is important for biblical historical context reasons but technically speaking these are ancient society laws. It's why instructional portions detailing animal sacrifice are included in that section when modern Christians tend to look at animal sacrifice as a satanic cult kind of thing.

Provided you are Christian ( before the atheists start in, I'm not - I just study the religion as a part of gaining historical background info) Using Leviticus to justify one's opinions on anything strikes me as showing that one read the text absent the scholarly context. A lot of Christians do this because book annotations wouldn't be a thing before 1000 AD and it really benefited a lot of powerful people to never mention context of the compiling process of the book because once the supposed less than divine fingerprints on the processed material are brought to light it weakens it's power as a tool of authority.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think something like this would be carried over into the new covenant as the spirit of the law remained

[–] MehBlah 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Except they don't do that. What they do is pick and choose from the old testament and ignore any part of the new testament that is inconvenient. Not all of them. Just the majority of them. What they do instead is take away the benches least someone in need to sleep there. They punish those that feed the needy in many places. They pass laws to make the most vulnerable of us criminals for daring to exist in their presence.

I don't listen to what people say. I watch what they do. What the majority of christians in my area do is hateful and very non christian. All of them are convinced though that god always wants exactly what they want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's disgusting

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, you don't use the 5e handbook as your character sheet, just like you don't use the Bible as your moral code.

You get to not play as a charitable and kind Christian if you don't want to, you can just as well play a greedy and mean subclass.