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That's ridiculous.
The whole Bible is full of insane ridiculous shit like this. It baffles me that people say they live their lives by it and don't even know what it says.
To be fair, there's zero expectation in most of Christianity that the entire Bible needs to be read and followed equally. Most Christians follow mostly the New Testament, and particularly the gospels. Some of this stuff in the Old Testament is less often talked about, taught, or even brought up. The stuff they focus on from the Old Testament are lessons about being tested and having faith (like Job) or the "generally love people and be a good person" niceties from books like Psalms.
I'm not defending it. But having grown up in that world, it's not at all like they give the same weight to these crazy verses as they do to the stories about Jesus. It's somewhat disingenuous to mock them simply cause these verses exist. Most don't follow these parts of the bible.
It's not mockery, it's a counter to the frequent assertion that religion is a source of morality.
Also when you consider most Christians consider the text to be wholly sacred, and many consider the Bible to be fully literal and without any fault.
No, that's history. Back then taking defeated enemies as slaves was pretty much standard. And with the slavery part of course there also came the rape part. That was how wars were done for the vast majority of human history.
Yes, but it's still ridiculous.
In today's, especially western, point of view? Sure. But luckily there really aren't Christians anymore who actually do this today.
then why are millions of people still using an incredibly outdated book as a "source" of their "morality"
They largely only study and follow parts of that book. The entire thing doesn't hold equal weight to them.
Then they're choosing which parts of the book to follow based on their own morality, disproving that the Bible is the source of their morality.
You're grossly oversimplifying spirituality.
then elaborate
That's kind of the whole point of Jesus existing. Jesus brought forth the new covenant. Before this, God was worshipped by sacrifices, strict rules, etc. In the old testament, the Jews(God's chosen) failed to keep God's law, and they were repeatedly punished for it.
The Messiah the Jews expected was going to be the savior and liberator of the Jews and "put them on top" so to speak.
Instead, Jesus offered salvation to all(gentiles). Clearly, Jesus and his new covenant stands in defiance of the old testament.
The old testament is mostly viewed in historical context.
That's a complete different question. But from the historical context the stuff in the Bible does make sense. After all it's written by people living in this reality.