text: idolators only: do you get fair treatment from the christian church? why don't they like you? what harm can it do? what are the benefits? do you think the christians have double standards about idolatory? should the bible be rewritten to reflect the more tolerant attitudes towards it? dear max:   why would christians who practice idolatry be concerned with other idolaters?   the torah and tanakh plainly declare the command of god, which is that the worship of any created thing is idolatry, including worship of a man because man is created.   the prophets job, hosea  both go to great length to declare that god is not a man, nor the son of man, that he should tell a lie.    yup,  its man that tells lies about god, and one of those very cunning lies, is that jesus,  a really cool, but nevertheless fictitious character of the gospel narratives is supposed to be a man,  which borrowed from all the pagan savior deity man god cult religions,  especially mithrism and gave jesus all the superlative characteristics.  not withstanding, it took the church nearly 325 years to finally vote jesus into the god union.    so, do christians have a double standard about idolatry, and the answer is of course they do.         as far as rewriting the bible,  what should be done, is that the nt should be labeled with a  note...that this is a work of fiction, written by unknown authors and tagged with the names of equally fictitious authors by the church and is still undergoing periodic corrections.     further, it should be seperated from the hebrew original text, as the two   narratives are not only contradictory, but also counter productive.   the hebrew bible, as published by art scroll publishers,  is a very adequate and very accurate translation of the hebrew original.  it comes highly recommended by able hebrew scholar translators.   sincerely