I hate it here…

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  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social
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    22 hours ago

    I mean it’s all a magical story about a dude who didn’t exist at all probably.

    But the “teachings” exist.

    Yet the American Christian resists the message but embraces the magic.

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      19 hours ago

      it’s all a magical story about a dude who didn’t exist at all probably

      No shortage of self-proclaimed messiahs and apocalyptic prophets running around Jerusalem 2,000 years ago. Less a question of whether Jesus existed than which one you’re talking about.

      American Christian resists the message but embraces the magic.

      That’s hardly an American thing. All the Abrahamic religions and the pagan ones, too, were obsessed with the magical realism of their personal mythologies.

      Neither were people blind, deaf, and dumb to the social message of the gospels. But people do lose sight of them as you become less like a 1st century apostle and more like a 1st century Pharasise.