Comments by "ncwordman" (@ncwordman) on "Trump Supporters Need A Lesson In Religious Freedom" video.

To be fair, Trump supporters need lessons in pretty much everything.
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They need physics and math desperately. Never have I seen logic and critical thinking so completely absent, as it is with Trump supporters.
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It doesn't compile "thousands of texts." There are 66 books, most of which had 2-3 writers each. It does compile things that were first sung as songs, and later turned into prose and written on scrolls. Yes, the Old Testament began as songs that were performed by traveling minstrels: a cool thought. It hasn't been changed much. The biggest changes come from the translations. The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew, whereas the New was written in Greek. As an example: Greek has four different words for "love." So when Jesus said it in the text, which Greek word was used? Another example is that "satan" is the Hebrew word for adversary, which is anyone who is against your position on any given thing. So a rival football team would be your satan. Most King James Bibles do not use the word adversary, in their Old Testament. And, for the New Testament, the word became a proper noun, as Middle-Age bishops sought to give Jesus a proper mythology, so it would be a story, instead of the collections of aphorisms spoken by Jesus--so they could appeal to the masses. Misinterpreted? Absolutely! Including you here and now. Whether someone "believes" in the Bible or not, they tend to think of it only in the literal sense, and not as cultural mythology, parables, or ancient writings from a far different culture.
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"When both religions dont really acknowledge each other" Well, since the Hebrew scriptures were written couple thousand years before the time of Jesus, or before the New Testament was written, it's silly to say it doesn't acknowledge what's thousands of years down the line. And the New Testament refers constantly to the Old. The Golden Rule is from Deuteronomy; Jesus spoke in public for the first time by reading Isaiah; Jesus' final utterance was a quote from the Psalms, etc. As for being opposed to each other: The Bible is made up of 66 books, each with a different writer. Often, there were 2-3 writers per book. They were written centuries and millennia apart from each other. Even if you assume that God gave the writers dictation, they would still have to process that with their limited human minds. Finally, you're taking the Bible way too literally, which is odd, because that's the same problem many believers have. It's like arguing against how bad Superman is, because some people believe Superman was real.
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@MrWyzdum Only in the negative sense. Before, it always read, "DON'T do to others what you WOULDN'T want others to do to you." Regardless, the point is that Jesus referred to it's usage in the Hebrew scripture.
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@MrWyzdum "Like you have any way of knowing" Like I have any way of knowing what? I'm not some gullible believer, chief. I'm an intellectual who reads a lot. I especially love history. And what I said can easily be read in Biblical history, as recorded by scholars such as William Barclay. "both statements are exactly equivalent." Grammatically, perhaps that could be argued. But telling someone to not do something is totally different from telling them to do something, especially when you also tell them why they should be doing it. Besides, my point, as I've stated it TWICE now is that the Golden rule was written in Deuteronomy, and Jesus referred to it as it was written there. How are you not getting that? "Jesus didn't appear in the Hebrew scripture" I didn't say he did. In fact, I said he couldn't have, since the Old Testament was written some 4,000 years before Jesus was said to have lived. And? So? What's your point?
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@MrWyzdum "You seem inordinately defensive and I regret that." Oh? Yeah, you called what I wrote "nonsense"; you claimed it was a "weird flex" for me to say I'm an intellectual, when I contrasted it by saying I wasn't a believer; you implied I didn't know what I was talking about with "Like you have any way of knowing"; and you began by saying the Golden Rule existed before Deuteronomy, as if trying to contradict me, when that had no bearing on anything I wrote. And you berated me for calling you "chief," saying it "reveals too much about" me. Really? And then you end by calling me "chief." So does it reveal the same thing about you? I call my best friend "chief." Did your interpretation allow for that possibility? And I'm being "inordinately defensive." Do you call your best friend "chief"? Then why call me that? But it's nice that you "regret that" (whatever "that" is). As for where I got the thing about the Golden Rule, give me a minute. I learn these things from books, not the internet, so it'll take a bit to look it up.
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@MrWyzdum So Jesus' Golden Rule is from Matthew 7:12. "Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them." And the following comes from William Barclay's commentary on Matthew, Volume 1, from the New Daily Study Bible. He began by writing: "It is not difficult to find many parallels to this saying in its negative form." His first example comes from two Jewish teachers, Shammai and Hillel: "What is hateful to yourself, do to no other." Let's see.... He lists other examples from Judaism.... Here's one from Confucius: "Confucius said: 'Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." This comes from the Buddhist hymns of the Faith: "Doing as one would be done by, kill not nor cause to kill." The orator Isocrates to King Nicocles: "Do not do to others the things which make you angry when you experience them at the hands of other people."
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@MrWyzdum There are a few more examples, but that's the gist of it. You see now what Barclay meant about its "negative form"? That was not my phrase, but his. And do you see that, in it's "positive form," it had not existed? While I can't prove a negative, I trust Barclay's scholarship when he makes that claim.
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@DwayneShaw1 You copy and pasted that whole thing from the comment above this one. Did you copy and paste it from some other source to start with? Can't you just address each comment with a distinctive reply? I say that because none of what you copied and pasted there has anything to do with what @sandracrosbie8468 wrote.
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@DwayneShaw1 Sounds like you're taking the Bible way too literally, which, oddly enough is the same problem believers have.
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