Context? Different Christian religions and people have varying ways of reconciling the two. I (raised Catholic) was taught essentially that with Jesus's death, the old rules went out the window; all that goofy shit God used to command the Israelites to do didn't need to happen anymore because Jesus's death made up for it. So the Old Testament isn't super relevant outside of providing the context for the New Testament.
Pointing out a diversity of viewpoints among Catholics is a poor way of refuting the existence of a diversity of viewpoints on the same point within the wider space of Christianity.
like the other response pointed out, that's not my interpretation- there's a diversity of viewpoints, and that's the interpretation that I was taught by the Church I went to and by my parents.
I commented to expand on what looked like a really simplistic dismissal of an honest question... and you tell me there's disagreement (ie multiple viewpoints)... which was the entire point of my post.
