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Oh how many of them would abandon the faith if they had actually read the damned book and realized how lefty Jesus comes across as, although it's worth reminding that he would technically be classified as an absolute monarchist by present definitions, seeing his emergence coinciding with the backlash against Rome just blowing the Judean throne up in favor of riling the place directly after the jews kept getting "unruly"
Reading and studying the bible (and not listening to apologists), is how atheists are made.
Not always, sometimes it results in oddballs who end up founding a new denomination or being the figure of admiration when some grifter founds a denomination in their supposed image.
Really the sheer number of protestant denominations should be held up in literature classes to teach just how many interpretations to a single text can be determined just from how different people read the same passages.
What's so funny about this shit, is my protestant atheist reading of the Bible explicitly denounces sola scriptural interpretation. The Bible was put together by church councils and was explicit that it wasn't the only authority of Christian tradition. For fucks sakes most of the new testament is just Paul writing about how the church hierarchy should be run.
In part II of this segment from Samantha bee, she talks about how Christians used to be opposed to politics because it was seen as “ungodly” and “dirty” to get involved in. [Relevant part is about 1:15 into the video, but you should watch the whole thing, as well as part I. She did some great investigative stuff, but she was a woman in late night, which was basically bound to fail.]
Well, until bussing/segregation spurred that white Christian bloc into action, that is. And when the fervor of that issue died down, the right wing pricks literally got on a conference call to try to reactivate those people to win elections. They were spitballing which issues they could use to get them involved again, and literally one of those assholes just said, “how about abortion?”
And voila. The religious right was born in earnest.
I've seen, the child marriage segment still pops veins in my forehead whenever I watch it or am reminded of it.