[lbo-talk] Evil Bible!

[Curtiss Leung]

>> I've long believed (and it's probably not my thought
>> at all but the remembered opinion of some scholar) the
>> Old Testament is the tribal war chronicle of people
>> living only a few moments, so to speak, after we
>> became truly human whereas the New Testament is the
>> much more complex and cosmopolitan product of
>> humanity's agriculture and city-state -- regional
>> empire phase.
>> The two collections of books scarcely belong together.
> But fundies really love the OT, don't they? The brutal, vengeful, 
> judgmental stuff, which is at odds with JC's turn the other cheek 
> wussiness.

Data point: the so-called Christian Reconstructionists
believe that the New Testament inaugurates not a new law,
but a new chosen people: instead of the tribes of Israel,
the chosen of God are the followers of Jesus.  OT law is
still in full force.

Reconstructionism isn't a sect, but a movement across
various fundamentalist denominations.  More than that I
don't know off the top of my head.  The blogger David
Neiwert (orcinus.blogspot.com) has written about them;
IIRC, he linked to something Chip Bertlet (or the people
he works for/with) had written.  Is Chip still in the room?
(and have I spelled his last name right?  shame, shame 
shame...)

Curtiss