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Yep.they get their info from "preachers" who themselves cherrypick the parts that align with their messages

I love how the good liars would tell christian right wing book banners about a book that contains a story about 3 daughters who got their father drunk and had sex with him and they'd ask them if the book should be banned.

Lies.

They only read the parts they agree with from the Bible.

None of them have. Like the Trinity was invented at the first ecumenical council of Nicaea over 300 years after the stories of the gospels. The word and concept have no biblical basis whatsoever. So even back before the biblical canon was finalized they weren't reading it and made it up as they went.

Going to be honest: They read the Bible or at least parts of it. But most do not truly process what they read. Not to mention that pretty much all of them are reading biased translations of translations of translations where a lot of nuance and caveats and original meanings are lost, if not completely mutated into something that's antithetical to the original meaning.

But anyway, gays are bad but shrimp is okay as are my tattoos and the 70% cotton, 20% rayon, 10% polyester socks I'm wearing. Time to stone a whore.

I disagree with the implication that the Bible or even Jesus' teachings as told by the New Testament, are left wing or right wing. It doesn't map to modern politics at all because it's ancient, their politics were just different, and also it's not univocal, it's hundreds of authors who all had different politics and different willingness to import their politics into their religious text.

Because of that, you can easily read it to confirm your biases, no matter what they are. Apostles went out as married pairs to spread the Gospel in early Christianity, that's in the Bible, so women are equals and should be allowed to be priests? But also women should cover their heads and be silent in church, that's in the Bible too. So who should we listen to? There's no "right" answer except whichever confirms your biases.

Even if you are trying to read it historically, I'd argue the historical Jesus (from the Q source sayings and implications from what different authors added or subtracted from Mark) was remarkably egalitarian for the time but he was doing it from the perspective of an apocalyptic preacher, eg he said his followers should give up all their money to the poor, but it was because the world was going to end during the current generation... which was 2000 years ago. So does that even apply as a life lesson in the modern day if the world isn't ending?

So the religious right may well have read the Bible, and come to a different conclusion than you, and they're not necessarily wrong, and neither are you.

They start on the Old Testament and give up after a certain point.

Some of them read the Bible, never read the news. They just listen to what they community says. If everyone you know and trust says president Jimmy bean is the most fantastic Christian devout president ever why would you question it?

I mean they already don't possess much critical thinking skills at that point, at least in this kind of context.