Slop.

This comrade gets it.

Reading the New Testament chronologically in the order it was written (not the chronology of its internal events) really hits this home. Paul’s undisputed letters are the oldest, and Paul is talking about not even having sex, not as a matter of self denial, but as a matter of “Jesus is coming like, tomorrow, so why even bother with sex. I mean if you really got to ok but the end is so near it’s a waste of time really”.

Christianity was an apocalyptic prophetic cult that expected Jesus to come back within a few months or so

When Jesus never came back, they invented the field of Christian apologetics, grew in numbers, and became a state religion

crashing out so hard you genocide/colonize most of the world

I've encountered a frighteningly high number of people who say things like, "if people didn't believe in god, what will stop them from going out to steal or kill?"

I grew up in a fairly secular household (parents never took us to church except for weddings or funerals) and even I knew from a young age that stealing* and murder is wrong. "God" didn't factor into those morals at all.

*except stealing from big corporations, as I learned as I got older

It also says not to have gay sex so it's kind of a mixed bag.

Lots of questions about my “not succumbing to the desires of the flesh” sleeveless tank.

Tbf, "forbids everything you desire" doesn't mean the same as "you desire everything it forbids". If all you desire is pork and gay sex and you believe the bible forbids both then it forbids everything you desire even if you have no interest whatsoever in your neighbour's ass

Still very silly though

I am presuming that by ‘man’s desires’ the author had sexual attraction in mind

White Christian men can be some of the most sexually depraved individuals.

before it became the Roman Empire's state religion

Y'all ever wonder if Christianity was so pro-poor why one of the most powerful men in history would pick it up and start spreading it around?

I got to see Amy-Jill Levine give a talk once, I found her book on the parables really interesting

Is there somewhere I can go every week to hear all about how I'm such a bad bad boy for even thinking about thinking about it? Maybe with a small, porous box I can whisper to another guy about it?

It's more like it was an attempt to gain control over the unpredictable and arbitrary material world, by naming and idolizing gods to appease and appeal to, and then the social control and cohesion stuff developed from that: codifying and cleaving to the established social order from when things were "good" because surely that will make the gods keep things going good or return things to a state of plenty and stability.

Even now there's a lot of earnest fear and desperation mixed in with all the cynicism and self-serving hypocrisy and self-serving heresy of the various churches and religious orders. The world is bad, so people appeal to magic to deliver them better fortunes, they grasp for ways to make the magic favor them with ritual or asceticism or sacrifice or violence, and there's little practical distinction between a terrified fanatic earnestly enacting evil to win divine favor and a grifter cynically enacting evil to earn sweet grifterbucks for it.

I feel like there's a tendency among atheists to see all the self-interest and hypocrisy and heresy and fraud among organized religions and just say "look upon these liars seeking power! They spin such silly and dumb tales to control fools and twist them to their wicked ends!" when the truth is far more spontaneous and horrible than that, that genuine fanaticism can go hand in hand with hypocrisy and fraud. After all, no one lies better than someone who earnestly and wholeheartedly believes what they're saying.

The chuds aren't gonna break the wheel of Samsara. Idiots.

More like endorse, depending on where you read

Walking on water? Turning water into wine? Resurrection? All nothing compared to the sonic rainboom

they turned their backs on the based white westvrn man after they made their buildings gray and removed the play places

That space between the ~~cheeks~~ ~~humps~~ arches is purposely designed to sheath the long end of a crucifix.

No that’s Cracker Barrel lol

As if I would pay for Netflix

They're doing the usual fash thing of attacking consumerism from the right

Wait until the hogs realize vanity is a sin too.

they’re not much of thinkers. For a bunch of tough guys, they sure act like cartoon valley girl cheerleaders