My library is spectacular. They have meeting spaces for all sorts of things: events and mini fairs, supporting a huge variety of clubs- from - hackspace for 3d printing and similar to quilting and knitting to…
Well let’s just put it this way, one of the events was a Mongolian circus performance.
They also have the quiet spaces for study and books
Honestly, the more liberal you go as a Christian, the more you have to struggle with cognitive dissonance.
I doubt very much that a historical Jesus would have been cool with lgbtq, women that weren’t property, and being told that slavery is uncool.
First off, despite what a lot of people claim, Jesus was a fundamentalist of sorts pushing to return to the strict laws of Moses. He wasn’t progressive, and that includes laws like stoning women for not crying out as they’re raped. But also, if the girl weren’t betrothed she’d be forced to marry her rapist and had no chance to leave them. All the rapist would be punished with is paying for the goods- “you break it you buy it” mentality.
Second off, he was running around the ass end of the boondocks faking miracles and grifting the ever living shit out id them. He’s as big a con artist as Trump.
All this to say, when you have to start trimming the book of all the awful shit, you eventually start to look at the Swiss cheese of paper and go “why should I?” (And we can add the early church fathers for the Catholics)