You really want me to go through the Bible and point out the bits that are impractical or oppressive?
Seriously? I don't have the time. But just to give you a place to start in your own research into that, start with all the dietary rules, then the rules about not wearing clothing of blended fabric, women not speaking in church.
If you’d like, per my comment, which was not intended to demean you, but to emphasize that I see them as blessings that encourage life and health, I can walk you through, from a largely secular stance, why those things are important, how it’s “amazingly coincidental” that God commanded those things as such, and how it would be incredible if those things had just been known to be beneficial to us at the time, by some sort of random understanding of some ignorant slaves just walking around in the sand, rather than from divine ordinance from the One who designed us.
I am of firm opinion that in the same way that we are trying to uncover the truth of what’s actually going on here, other truths were revealed long ago.
Ironically, all those things you cited as “oppressive Christian practices” are rejected by most of modern Christianity as “legalistic and not in line with grace” - making it amazingly ironic that the “oppressive” practices you cited, correctly, as Christian are rejected by modern Christianity.
You really want me to go through the Bible and point out the bits that are impractical or oppressive?
Seriously? I don't have the time. But just to give you a place to start in your own research into that, start with all the dietary rules, then the rules about not wearing clothing of blended fabric, women not speaking in church.
If you’d like, per my comment, which was not intended to demean you, but to emphasize that I see them as blessings that encourage life and health, I can walk you through, from a largely secular stance, why those things are important, how it’s “amazingly coincidental” that God commanded those things as such, and how it would be incredible if those things had just been known to be beneficial to us at the time, by some sort of random understanding of some ignorant slaves just walking around in the sand, rather than from divine ordinance from the One who designed us.
I am of firm opinion that in the same way that we are trying to uncover the truth of what’s actually going on here, other truths were revealed long ago.
Ironically, all those things you cited as “oppressive Christian practices” are rejected by most of modern Christianity as “legalistic and not in line with grace” - making it amazingly ironic that the “oppressive” practices you cited, correctly, as Christian are rejected by modern Christianity.
You’re not helping your case!
Note that it was in the temple, not in church. Two different things, and for specific reasons and contexts.