You need to understand that most of these people have never cracked the Bible open, let alone actually try to read it as a collection of 55 separate books mostly chronling One tribe and of their stories covering poetry, life lessons, spirituality, morality, etc over roughly a 3,000 ish year time span bound in one binding.
Or to put this in perspective. Imagine somebody made a supercut of all Star wars media ever produced all of the clone wars episodes, the prequels all of the new Disney shit and they made it into one massive supercut. That's what the Bible is.
Psalm 137:9 says it's a value.
Some translationa say you will just be happy if you bash babies against rocks. But most say you will be blessed for doing it. That makes it a value.
The whole thing is a story and shouldn't be taken seriously but here we are. People like to pick and choose which parts of the story are worth following. Old or new testament doesn't matter, believe in one then you have to believe in the other.
Does Netenyahu represent Judaism? Trump stands for Christianity? Khomini for Islam? Hitler for Atheism?
No, none of them is religious they each abuse an extreme version of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or even Athisim as well. They prey and indoctrinate their audiance with shitty idologies to stay in power through it. In case of Athiesm, China replaced religon with a cult of patrioty through which they could justify their minority genocide and the endless list of CCP oppression.
Their governments should just rotate each leader once in a while just to keep things fun .... I doubt anyone would notice or that it would change world politics
Yeah. Iranians have a shitty government, but in all honesty they've been kind of pulled into all kind of bullshit most of the time. If you look at history, they've rather rarely been the aggressor.
Dunno. Being a violent pedophile/rapist is pretty important when it comes to being on any ballot. In a society not entirely brainwashed that list might be useful to keep future monsters away from power.
Well modern Iran is built on persecutions. Be it Zoroastrians, Jews, Christians, Mandaeism, Ba'hai all were persecuted, even sunni and sufi muslim also persecuted.
As long as enough people are narcissistic and lack empathy, this will happen. Because at the end of the day, conservatism is narcissism. As is easily demonstrated in all tthe "leaporads ate my face" social media groups. Where you can see them cheering something on when it's hurting others, and then crying as soon as it impacts themselves or someone close to them.