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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)
[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 day ago

Also every Hollywood agent with Jewish clients from 1900 until present day.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Paul's is the funniest because he only got one letter changed from "Saul," even though he had used to be the biggest menace. He was a Christian hunter. Not like a professional one, more like McCarthyism but against Christians.

Saul was a perfect example of sin, and Jesus said, "Let's switch that 'S with a P, and he's all good. '"

(Please don't hurt me, I'm joking)

Edit: Wait, my bad. Jesus changed his Roman name, "Paul" to "Saul," (which was Paul's, Jewish name), and after Jesus died, when Paul moved to Rome, he went by "Paul" again. That's also right before he was imprisoned and executed and where he'd write parts of the N.T.

I had to double-check everything, lol. That felt like the mendala effect. It turned out he also spent some time in the Bahamas dreaming about some guy named Yosef.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A Christian hunter? Before Christianity existed? What?

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you're getting your timeline mixed up. Paul converted to Christianity some time after Jesus died and quickly became a leader in the early church due to his prolific letter writing, with letters on all aspects of Christian life. Many of these letters (and a few that modern scholars believe are from people pretending to be Paul) ended up getting included into the New Testament as scripture because they were so popular and influential on early Christianity. However, these did not invent Christianity. All of these letters are to Christian communities that already existed in Paul's own time, and a few of them mention how he used to persecute Christians because he was a hardcore Jew and thought they were corrupting Judaism.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I always thought the timeline was really confusing. That was the narrative we were taught in church. He persecuted early followers.

"According to the Acts, Paul lived as a Pharisee and participated in the persecution of early disciples of Jesus, possibly Hellenised diaspora Jews converted to Christianity,[12] in the area of Jerusalem, before his conversion.[note 1]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you tend to do that when you and your buddies are up to street crime

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent meal of loaves and fishes?

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

taking multiple roman soldiers' equipment a mile down the road, destruction of money lender property, theft of grain

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The destruction of the money lenders property and the theft of grain were justified imo

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 20 hours ago

as well as fucking with roman military logistics. i support all three of the things i listed

Not to mention destroying the local bread, fish, and wine economy.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Yubaba vibes

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm imagining a Reservoir Dogs scene playing out about the names.

Someone on another mission trip is Acolyte Paul! I assign the names, otherwise we'd have a bunch of Jews dead from an argument over who gets to be Acolyte John. So, you are Acolyte Pink!

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

It worked on Muhammad Ali too

[–] painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Like Ging did to Wdwune in HxH

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Even in the Bible they people with deadnames.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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