re: #81 LudwigVanQuixote

Sure. But for the time being, I hope you understood Sergey’s point that the “Old Testament”, the text stripped of whatever amelioration is contained in the oral tradition, has many brutal things in it. Even though a reasonable person reading it should realize that it needs interpretation, Christian preachers— and Jews, for example, some of the weirder sects during the messianic era when Christ was (or wasn’t) around— do ‘interpret’ it in a way that their followers trust, even though they shouldn’t.