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i mean it's mostly all metaphor and allegory, meant to teach you lessons rather than to act as a historical document.
it's like a book of fables for people who think animals are silly
The foremost lesson being "obey authority figures or else"
"Treat women and children like property. Always blame victims. Take slaves from neighboring countries, never your own."
Lots of great lessons in that holiest of books.
Second is "don't question them"
personally i am a fan of "keep your religion to yourself", "don't use the veil of the church as a means to make money", "help those that others cast out, like sex workers", "don't engage in stereotype", and "rich people go to hell".
Yeah. Funny how the most influential Christians all tend to forget those 🤔
But only mostly!
Catholicism truly believes you are eating Jesus's body and drinking his blood at mass.
But it's not cannibalism because the bread and wine still keep all their properties after turning into Jesus 🤓
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/are-catholics-cannibals
You could make a perfectly cromulent meringue out of human blood, and it'd have all the properties of a meringue made out of eggs (no, seriously, blood is effectively a one to one culinary equivalent of eggs, except for the taste and allergens)... but it'd still be made out of human blood. 🤷♂️
It's this kind of mental gymnastics that killed church for me. Jesus had a pretty decent moral framework set up, but people mangled into a bunch of hocus pocus.