There are very few Atheists, even professional ones, who have done more than a cursory reading of a few chapters. That's why a lot of them get extremely BTFO by Ancient Near East linguists on their uneducated word interpretations.
Well its easy to see why, R.Cam is targeting the only thing Bob's cold black heart cares about.
Why's he referencing things that happened in Numbers while "only finishing up Exodus?"
I deserve some puzzle pieces, but there are actually two separate incidents where Moses gets water from a rock. One in Exodus 17, and the other in Numbers 20.
Nevermind, you're right. I forgot he also did it in Exodus right before they murdered the Amalekites.
Has the maker of this ever met a Levantine? They’re brown compared to Northern Europeans, they’re not like mulattos.
I don't know why they always lean in with black characteristics and completely ignore the Mizrahi as a reference. Even then it would be hard to give an accurate depiction of what the Jewish ethnicity would have looked like due to how often the region gets conquered by diverse groups along with diaspora further messing with the Jewish ethnic makeup. They probably had the same olive complexion and dark hair/eyes as everyone else in the Mediterranian seeing as how the Romans didn't really reference anything unusual with their appearances in their art or writings as they did with the barbarians up north or the Africans down south.
He actually was a nationalist given he called Canaanites dogs and had to be convinced by one self-deprecating and lowering herself to accept them into his ranks. He also WAS rich. His family were carpenters and masons, quite lucrative trades during the time. And loving thy neighbor? Sure, but he wasn't above beating people up if they pissed him off. His treatment of the merchants in the temple come to mind.
Didn't think much of the gays either.
Never said anything on them, but likely didn't care for them, no. He did state you had to on some level follow the Levitical laws which did criminalize being gay, him stating you would be least in heaven if you didn't. But on the other hand he also mentioned having a new Covenant and he was tried due to routinely breaking the Sabbath.
Considering He said marriage is between a man and a woman only and child abusers are better off hanging themselves under the sea, you'd think He didn't care very much for the gays than didn't care about them at all.
"Love thy neighbor" is a call to nationalism anyway, not a condemnation of it. There's a firm hierarchy of neighborhood that exists in the Bible and in early Christian thought, with it starting in the family (self -> wife -> parents -> children) then extending to one's believing community and nation before ever touching anyone else. People who care more for outsiders than their own community are effectively condemned by that verse.
Aside from the fact that this preacher story is probably bullshit, it's amazing how little self-awareness the people who are two steps away from burning churches have in regards to religious people criticizing their pet causes.
"It's only bigotry is you don't agree with me!"
