Goat

Except:

• serial killers have always been a very rare phenomenon, certainly not prominent enough to justify the extent of policing seen today in most developed countries
• catching serial killers is detective work that only involves a small subset of the police force, meaning that the aforementioned policing is not merely undue, but actually useless
• the violent criminals who are not serial killers reoffend upwards of 50% of the time, sometimes higher in certain countries

All of the evidence points to the conclusion that the police system, in the overwhelming majority of cases, creates a false sense of justice in which people harm others, get punished with a few years of slave labor for doing so, and the structural reasons that led them to harm others to start with remain unaddressed, leading them to resume the same type of harm but with tactical adjustments made to avoid getting caught again learned through prison socialization.

Well, the people dedicated to enforcing it don’t have a very good track record of making it any better. A police officer is physically not capable of preventing a murder, for example, because it is all but guaranteed to be too late by the time they arrive in response to an emergency call.

Well, the New Testament has plenty of Jesus acting like a general dickhead, doing some pretty despicable things, and making it abundantly clear that he does not condemn any of the atrocities that God requested in the Old Testament.

Also, the status of the Old Testament very much depends on the denomination: it’s an “allegory” in Orthodox Christianity (read: when the book very clearly says that it stands for cruelty and genocide, it’s actually an elaborate metaphor for sunshine and rainbows), whereas Catholicism purportedly takes it quite seriously.

the tags calling Christianity media explicitly against hate is crazy work when the Bible, in the most literal way possible, has God demand several genocidal massacres that are then carried out without question, with Saul getting punished by God for not being thorough enough in the killing of all living things in Amalek