Zone1 The Handmaid's Tale: A Perversion of Christianity

[Mr Natural]

Well, thank god christians arent like that anymore. 2000 years of death and oppression, and they finally grew out of it. The muzzies have an extra 600 years. Maybe they will put that time to good use.

They’re all crazy. It’s just a matter of the degree of their craziness.

 

[Failzero]

Democommies were desperate in Hollywood ( they felt as if they lived in the America of “ The Man in the High Castle” ) and they lashed out at Religious Conservative ideals of America

 

[ding]

Isnt that most religions? Especially Christianity?
"you have free will, but dont make the wrong choice, or you will burn for eternity!"

Do you see a lot of people behaving like they believe they will burn in hell for eternity if they do something wrong? Because I don't. Which blows your argument out of the water.

At some point you are going to recognize that religions are an honor based system. As such, people will do what they will do without regard for what their religion teaches. Religion isn't needed for good people. Good people are going to do good regardless. Religion is needed for bad people and bad people don't care if they are bad. They only care about getting caught.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Kind of going off the deep end. A reminder that the book is fiction, and intended to be so...

 

[ding]

Kind of going off the deep end. A reminder that the book is fiction, and intended to be so...

The OP touched upon an important point. Just because the Bible RECORDS it doesn't mean the Bible ENDORSES it. So when people misapply it, even in a fictional book, we are all worse off for it because it skews the truth.

 

[marvin martian]

I began watching The Handmaid's Tale recently (yes, I'm late to the series). I have always loved dystopian stories, and this one features great storytelling and world-building.

But Gilead is a perversion of Christianity, and uses the faith only as a tool to control society.

Notably in season one is the use of fertile handmaids to give wives babies. To justify this, Gilead quotes the Old Testament women who had their husbands sleep with their servants in order to give them children.

But the flaw is this: just because the Bible RECORDS it doesn't mean the Bible ENDORSES it. Nowhere did God give this decree, which is adultery. The idea stemmed solely from desperate women. Once the deed is done, God can use sinful people and even sinful actions to His end. But He did not either command or endorse the sin.

This fallacy of recording vs. endorsing is all over the series, such as when the Commanders visit the Jezebels. Again, yes, there are prostitutes recorded in the Bible. Nowhere does God endorse it.

Still, we have mainly Leftist women dressing in handmaid's garb to "fight the patriarchy", often citing Christianity as the patriarchal foe. I would say, hey, Tehran is sitting right over here.....

Hollywood (and their audiences) are far too dumb and provincial to realize that, with Gilead, they nearly perfectly depicted Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gaza. Right down to the covered women who are treated like cattle, and the gays hanging from bridges.

 

[SweetSue92]

TN has an old law that husbands can legally beat their wives on the courthouse steps on Sunday. Guess what group of religious people made that law.
HINT: It wasnt muzzies.

Unbiblical. Another perversion.

 

[SweetSue92]

Yes, I would submit thats the whole point of the novel and series.

Yes, of course. But too many people think that's really how Christianity is, or wants to be if we could "get away with it"

 

[SweetSue92]

Well, thank god christians arent like that anymore. 2000 years of death and oppression, and they finally grew out of it. The muzzies have an extra 600 years. Maybe they will put that time to good use.

A perversion of a truth does nothing to diminish the truth.

You can toss a ball up in the air. Gravity will still win, gravity is still true.

 

[SweetSue92]

Isnt that most religions? Especially Christianity?
"you have free will, but dont make the wrong choice, or you will burn for eternity!"
"Dont be gay, or god will kill our entire civilization!"
"dont pray to the cow, or god will kill all of our babies!"
Christians even use the religion as an excuse for societal breakdown. "We need to bring god back into society and schools!" Thats basically a Freudian slip for wanting to control society through the tool of religion.

No.

 

[SweetSue92]

I have not watched the show but the advertisements are spooky enough to keep me away

This is slander of Christians disguised as harmless theater by godless heathen libs

Okay Tipper Gore

 

[ding]

Lol what about all those stories in the Torah? Those were designed to instill fear. Meaning obedience.
Even some of your barbaric laws were. Even for children. Like sending your bad kids to the town elders to have them killed.

Without having a specific passage it's hard to address your claim. It very well may be that you confused the Bible RECORDING it for the Bible ENDORSING it.

But to your point, yes, the bible does teach us to be obedient to GOD. That doesn't mean it was written for other humans to control us. It means that if you want a happy, peaceful and successful life, that you should love God with all your heart. Because if you love God you won't need rules because you will always do the right thing. Which is literally what Jesus corrected and taught. It's not about rule keeping. It's about loving God.

 

[SweetSue92]

They’re all crazy. It’s just a matter of the degree of their craziness.

You know what's really crazy? Thinking we all came out of nothing.

 

[SweetSue92]

Democommies were desperate in Hollywood ( they felt as if they lived in the America of “ The Man in the High Castle” ) and they lashed out at Religious Conservative ideals of America

Handmaid's Tale is not that....it's pretty genius actually. It's okay to ingest things with which you disagree. There's a lot in even God's Book with which He doesn't agree....

 

[Failzero]

Handmaid's Tale is not that....it's pretty genius actually. It's okay to ingest things with which you disagree. There's a lot in even God's Book with which He doesn't agree....

I won’t ingest The Koran Shade

 

[The Irish Ram]

TN has an old law that husbands can legally beat their wives on the courthouse steps on Sunday. Guess what group of religious people made that law.
HINT: It wasnt muzzies.

lol.
Husband: "Come on with me to the courthouse steps".
Wife: "Sure. Let me just grab my revolver and stiletto"...

 

[TNHarley]

Unbiblical. Another perversion.

Punishment is very biblical.

 

[Mr Natural]

You know what's really crazy? Thinking we all came out of nothing.

We didn’t come from nothing. We evolved over hundreds of thousands of years.

 

[TNHarley]

No.

Indeed, my dear Sue. Indeed.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

A lot of people like to use Christianity as a whipping post who don't really know much about it.

....and those who do COMPLETY fail to address the status of Women wherever Islamic law prevails.

It's like screaming about the neighbor's cat that just peed in your petunias when a mountain lion has your kid's head in its jaws.