kdpierre:
As for digression?
My comment was light-hearted and I only made it after I'd joined in the digression myself!
kdpierre:
In my experience Christians use the two books interchangeably.....to justify whatever particular nasty little view they are currently espousing.....even if they are contradictory.
As an ex-Christian I spent a lot of my youth in churches and that was never my experience. And are you implying
all their views are nasty and little? You can't characterise a whole group by its worst and most extreme examples. That's just prejudice.
To come at this from another angle, there will be christians who are members of this site. I know of two for sure who I have great respect for, I don't think it right that their sincerely held beliefs should be grossly misrepresented and held up to ridicule. Perhaps you do?