An open letter to somebody who will remain unnamed:

[conuly]

When you say that the rhetoric of the rightwing fundiegelical crowd is full of bigotry, including but certainly not limited to anti-Semitism, you're not wrong. I also agree with your implied suggestion that all this anti-Semitism is a bad thing.

However, when you then go from that starting point to the conclusion that these people are bad folks because they pay too much attention to the OT and not the NT, and that anybody who does that is hopelessly immoral, I worry that you have totally lost the plot. You should've quit while you were ahead.

If you can't figure out why those two statements don't belong in the same comment together, perhaps you should do some soul-searching. Actually, maybe you should anyway.

Comments

[elayna]

I'm sorry, what are OT and NT abbreviations for?

Oh! Old Testament and New Testament?

[conuly]

Yup. You see the problem here, I hope.

[elayna]

Honestly, I’m not religious and other than a cultural awareness that OT is the ‘eye for an eye’ one and NT is the ‘turn the other cheek,’ I don’t know enough about either book to judge people by them. I do wonder sometimes at people I know consider themselves good Christians and yet are anti-immigrant...I guess they don’t understand ‘love your brother’ like I assume it ought to be understood.

[conuly]

Yeah, that's the "awareness" that leads people to say crap like the dude in the post.