All Christians and Jews pick and choose parts of the bible they wish to believe in.
Where is your proof on this one? Christians who I know do not simply overlook parts of the Bible. You might say that it contradicts itself... if so, you're taking figurative text in a literal meaning. For example: If someone says, "Break a leg", do you turn on him in defense because you thought he wanted you to hurt yourself? The Bible tells stories, or parables, that are meant to make a point.
Read my quotes below. Unless you agree with all of those (and many more, where that came from), you're a hypocrite.
The Bible says to do the following:
Beat disobedient teenagers.
Stone people who adulterate.
It's okay to sell your daughter into slavery.
As for beating, it's simply corporal punishment. This is different from abuse as it does not hurt the child, but teaches them when something is wrong where words would be ignored. The stoning and slavery was, as I said, written in a figurative way. When the Bible says "washed in the blood of the lamb", do you take that literally? It's rediculous of you to do so. You people try to call us hipocritical by saying that we don't do everything the Bible says... Guess what. It's human nature. We're not perfect, just forgiven.
Besides the fact that there are dozens of studies that prove spanking is damaging to a child, I will ignore that statement.
And I lol'd at the figurating thing. You cant take half the bible literally and half the bible figuratively. That, in itself, is a loving hypocritical set of bullstuff. When it says "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind," are they like "Yeah, don't sleep in the same sleeping bag together. L-O-L, that's kinda gay XDDD", or are they saying "Men who forget men are to be killed."
How can you take that book as a moral guideline when you need to actually loving interpret the material? When I read a Science textbook it isn't in flowery English and figurative speaking, no. It's in plain English that can be understood.
The Bible says you may sell your daughter.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
The Bible says you
should beat your children.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
The Bible says to
kill disobedient children.
He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Bonus Material! Go to hell, you friends!
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
