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Bob Lai diaspora
Grrrr. Eliminate.
Andy Dillon diaspora
But Thanos only wanted to eliminate half. Ergo, Abrahamic god is twice as shitty.
Bob Lai diaspora
Despite the 'new and perfect Covenant' spoken of by Christ Jesus, there are an awful lot of 'Christians' who seem to want the ol' fire-and-brimstone version.
yeah, the book may need a few updates, and it's followers too x'D
J.C. just isn't very "Operative", know what I mean?
Thank god for that Paul guy, who never actually knew J.C. but still got to decide how everything would work, homophobia included.
Teedi P. friendica
@Andreas Geisler Ooh, somebody else finally brought up the Paul thing. A few years ago that really hit me, that most of the New Testament is Paul's letters (supposedly). So, when someone calls it the gospel "according to Jesus" I had to stop a second and go, but wait, Paul was the one doing most of the writing, so technically isn't "The gospel influenced by Jesus and according to Paul" more accurate?
Hmm...
I'll get on that after I finish reading the Old Testament part of The Brick Bible.
Some of the Gospel writers were Paul's buddies, so don't leave that part out. Mark and Luke, specifically; Luke was Paul's doctor.
Ahhh, Matthew--the Persian flavored one. His Gospel is the only one that lauds pagan high priests as "wise men". Magism = Zoroastrianism The Next Generation.
Khurram Wadee diaspora
Why did god need two goes at having a covenant with things he created in the first place? Is it because we unionized?
Divide and conquer, man. Divide and conquer.
more like 3 goes with the coran ^^'
Don't forget the Mormons!
Bob Lai diaspora
@Khurram Wadee It’s Machiavellian. Send the Brute to oppress and pacify the populace, then bring in the Chosen One, who rules over a region where all the troublemakers have been killed or imprisoned, and the rest won’t speak out.
It's a case of not getting it right the first time.
* Creation failed so needed drowning
* Drowning worked only for a while so that needed a Redeemer Plan
* Redeemer Plan was incomplete--Redeemer has to come again.

For a God that's Almighty and Perfect, he sure goofs up repeatedly.
Bob's got the politics of the scheme quite right. No empire could exist without its religion and even ancient Egypt discovered that when a ruler monkeys with a religion widely believed by the ruled, it's possible to get executed for blasphemy even when the religion has declared the ruler a god.

Both Persians and Romans recognized the utility of adapting state religion to encompass the religion of the conquered. We'd have no "Greco-Roman" anything without it, and Christianity wouldn't have had so many Egyptian, Jewish, Mithraic elements in it either.
Eh, Stalin did OK, right?
The interchanging of "religion" for "culture" is part of the problem, actually. What you say is true otherwise.
That's not culture--that's arm-twisting.
It's a bit funny how, when kings use religion as a pretext for war and plunder, it's the fault of religion, but when they use "advancing civilization" as pretext for same, they are (mostly) seen as just greedy.

Religion has certainly caused evils, but many evils caused in the name of religion were actually done for greed, and it is dangerous to ignore the root cause, just because it feels good to rag on those sanctimonious hypocrite priests.
Bob Lai diaspora
I mean, before the Italian priests came up to visit, galumpkis had no tomato sauce.
Loved my Aunt Bea's galumpkis. (Not blood relation, friend of my Mother's.)
But for the brutal Catholic colonization of South America via Spain & Italy's Columbus, Italians wouldn't have any tomatoes to make sauce with. What you're looking at is a forcible appropriation of Native American culture.
Him and the horse (king) he rode in on.

Current events in Russia shows us the dangers involved in the interplay between leaders and followers.
The followers enable the leaders, and ultimately must control those leaders.
Otherwise, it's the head wagging the dog, so to speak.
^^ My Marxist Detector just went off.
You'd have to be a Marx disciple to see it that way.
Marxist disciple alright--based on the large parts of Marx that were swallowed.
The idea I get regard your thinking is based on what you've said, actually. Now you're here claiming you didn't mean what you said. Fancy that.
...plus what Marx meant by it. Got you twice over.
Clara often goes into this sort of "GOTCHA" mode whenever someone's responses are even slightly unexpected.

Probably not possible to disentangle the misconceptions.
Andy Dillon diaspora
It *is* an observed pattern.

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