Why does the right wing

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38. You've missed the point completely

In the religious narrative, these people are not mere mortals with the normal human faults, but held to a much higher standard.

While I think many christians can see jesus's weak spots in an achilles heel sort of way, you can't really expect them to define his "vices".

I'm not saying Jesus had virtues or vices, I'm saying an honest interpretation of scripture is one that incorporates the totality of his alleged positions, not merely those you find tasteful.

That is precisely what most of the aforementioned claimants have done. They have quote-mined the text and produced narratives which are in keeping only with their preexisting worldviews--they have presented Christ as the person they want him to be rather than how he is described in the only texts testament to his life and works.

The remainder, meanwhile, have simply made shit up, and there's certainly nothing fundamentalist or literalist about criticizing people who have so abjectly failed in their exegeses as to draw conclusions utterly unsubstantiated by the text.

Again, I find nothing wrong with people picking out palatable bits of inspiration from the Bible. But you cannot honestly present the Bible, or its message, as the sole product of those limited passages. Just because you like the bits about loving thy neighbor and giving to the poor doesn't mean all that other shit about the imminent end of the world and tacit approval of slavery isn't there or deserving of mention, because it is.

But I do object to those who demand that anyone that believes must believe in every word or they are hypocrites.

So you are in disagreement with the OP, then?