There is text in the bible that strongly suggests the new testament set up celibacy as morally superior to sex within marriage. In practice, this mostly only one-shotted autists who got “yay bible” from their social group, and read the bible literally, but didn’t read enough of the bible to realize that it is a self-contradicting mess.
You can “un self contradict” the bible, maybe, with enough scholarship such that people who learn the right interpretative schemes can learn about how maybe Paul’s stuff shouldn’t be taken as seriously as the red text, and have all the “thoughtful scholars” interpret the mess in a useful and mostly non-contradictory way...
In real life, normies just pick and choose, mostly by copying the “pick and choose” choices of people who seem successful and useful as role models, and they don’t think too hard about which traditions they are following and why they’re following them… but the strong “generalized anti-sex attitudes” in the bible would make a classic example for Reason As Memetic Immune Disorder. They aren’t used there, but they easily could be.
There is text in the bible that strongly suggests the new testament set up celibacy as morally superior to sex within marriage. In practice, this mostly only one-shotted autists who got “yay bible” from their social group, and read the bible literally, but didn’t read enough of the bible to realize that it is a self-contradicting mess.
You can “un self contradict” the bible, maybe, with enough scholarship such that people who learn the right interpretative schemes can learn about how maybe Paul’s stuff shouldn’t be taken as seriously as the red text, and have all the “thoughtful scholars” interpret the mess in a useful and mostly non-contradictory way...
In real life, normies just pick and choose, mostly by copying the “pick and choose” choices of people who seem successful and useful as role models, and they don’t think too hard about which traditions they are following and why they’re following them… but the strong “generalized anti-sex attitudes” in the bible would make a classic example for Reason As Memetic Immune Disorder. They aren’t used there, but they easily could be.