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Full Idea
I have always been kept away from Christianity by its ranking the Old Testament stories, so full of pitiless cruelty, as sacred texts.
Gist of Idea
The cruelty of the Old Testament put me off Christianity
Source
Simone Weil (Letters [1940], 1941-01)
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'Seventy Letters' [Wipf & Stock 2015], p.129
A Reaction
After 1938 she was a devout and intense Christian, but of a highly individual and platonist kind. Her religion is dominated by love and beauty.
| 4300 | The Bible has nothing in common with reasoning and philosophy [Spinoza] |
| 2918 | The story in Genesis is the story of God's fear of science [Nietzsche] |
| 23904 | The cruelty of the Old Testament put me off Christianity [Weil] |
| 8008 | The Bible is a story about God in which humans are incidental characters [MacIntyre] |