Thought-provoking

One where he uses his feet to crush watermelons, specifically

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"You're not a God, you're just a jerk!"

It happened to a huge amount of people. The Romans crucified so many people, it was so common place, that they didn't even bother to write down how they did it. All I'm saying is, it wasn't a unique form of suffering that was particularly difficult to Jesus vs thousands of other people in history. If the difficulty of the death was the measure, he didn't go that far out of his way.

Fair enough, but I also don't think that we should consider a few days of suffering for an eternity of basically being god much of a sacrifice.

there's billions of ways others have died a worse death - I'll take a crucifixion knowing I'll get eternal life in heaven any day of the week.

Or maybe that's not a sin 😏

It would be disrespectful to stop at this point.

This is the internet, you can say masturbation, you know.

Hahaha and his dad didn't even beat him or told him he's a disappointment

He tried to kill people and ended up helping feed the world, then he tried to feed people and ended up helping the Holocaust. The guy is a fascinating historical figure but definitely a was a monster.

The entire bible if filled with contradicting stories, with incest, child abuse and murder. Nice book as reference for a better life 👌

If any gospel is least fanfic it’s John. The Synoptics are younger

Yeah me too, my favorite hobby but instead I'm only allowed to indoctrinate kids.

During WW1 he killed millions by developing chlorine gas, among other poisoness gasses, but he saves billions by discovering how to synthesize fertilizer. Without that discovery, most of the world population would have died from starvation, if not all.

I don't know how long days are where you live, but dead Friday night and alive on Sunday morning means he was dead the entire Saturday, which over here means he has been dead for at least 24h plus the hours on Friday night and Sunday morning. Still kinda lame, dead for a few hours for the entire human race, both in the past and future. Is that all it takes?

The fact that I got downvoted over this is showing me that the lemmy that I once knew before the exodus is not here anymore.

Really a shame

well the bread they were eating was most likely a flatbread that did not have any yeast. Someone who has a better idea of the history please come in and prove me wrong.

y'all need a good cook named Jesus in your lives. you get to thank Jesus personally and also swap baking tips.

Throwing your daughter out to save your traveling guest's ass from being raped is also an option.

^{Judges 19 for the curious}

Maybe two!

How do you reconcile being a good person, with respecting other people's beliefs, and not trying to convert people?

Proselytization is against Judaism. Someone who follows Judaism properly would be meeting all of those points.

That’s not to say all Jews are following Judaism properly. glares at israel in contempt

I might be able to help here! Trying to save/convert someone can look a lot of different ways, but what almost never works is aggressively pursuing someone. The best way is to live by example and just engage in theological conversations when they come up, not by pushing but mainly by being curious and asking questions.

With this method it is quite easy to have friends from different belief systems. Everyone is on their own journey and sometimes it takes a lifetime, but being pushy is never a good option.

How so? Jesus has a number of very specific teachings, foremost among them being to love your neighbor as yourself. Calling people out for calling themselves Christians while obviously ignoring the central tenet of his message is no different than calling out someone who calls themself a vegan while obviously eating a bucket of KFC.

The No True Scotsman fallacy is when you declare a label (Scotsman) to be conditional on some unrelated factor (putting sugar in porridge) instead of the actual condition (being from Scotland).

Following the tenets of Jesus is the definitive condition of being a "Christian". Going to a church every week and singing the songs doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the farmer's market and chanting in protests makes you a vegan. It doesn't matter what you call yourself if you don't do the thing you're singing about.

Very much true, for the most part the religion is used as an utility to control and exploit masses.

The ruleset is very vague in itself and varies from religion to religion. To me, it's all about being true to yourself. If you truly believe that you're doing the right thing, you probably are. But that's probably a massive simplification.

I'm talking particularly about the catholic church, but that is still the case for all the more conservative denominations and sects, like Fundamentalists or Jehova followers.

I myself am an independent Christian, but my wife is catholic and sometimes I have to go to the church with her. The things the priests say during the masses are just horrid, even in the more secular areas.

It's unbelievable to me that these scum made people believe that their corporation is the only true middleman between the people and the God.