Were it not for Christianity, most of the world would have had no reason to ever read the Torah or the rest of the Old Testament.
The West would never have read about the condemnations of human sexuality, of heresy, or how to justify the murderous acts described in the Old Testament. The Crusades, the Inquisition, the Dark Ages, all would never have occurred.
Only through the apostles' outreach to Gentiles was this horrid book brought into wider circulation. The religious rules applied only to a tiny minority until teachings about Jesus spread.
What responsibility, then, does Jesus-ism hold for the introduction of oppressive Old Testament writings into the wider world?
2007-03-03
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