Such a supremely dumb religion. If you’re ever bored, look into its history and be completely dumbfounded by the fact that people believe this shit in 2023.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    the damage caused by “retconning history” when “there are Chinese Christians who insist Jesus’s brother came to liberate East Asia.”

    Was the convert-or-die zealotry of the adherents. It wasn't hurt feelings. They were literally stabbing you if you disagreed.

    That’s not a retcon in the same way the others are and isn’t invalidating the history or identity of people like when you claim someone isn’t a real Jew or ancient aliens built everything.

    Its exactly the same. They all did the same stuff. They were so eager to fanfic local histories to accommodate the new faith that they ran straight over each others toes and started killing one another over claims of heresy. It was Protestantism all over again.

    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      They were so eager to fanfic local histories to accommodate the new faith that they ran straight over each others toes and started killing one another over claims of heresy. It was Protestantism all over again

      This makes a lot of sense. Thanks for taking the time to explain.

      I get what you mean now analogizing Hong and the Heavenly Kingdom with Smith and Mormonism.

      Was the convert-or-die zealotry of the adherents. It wasn’t hurt feelings. They were literally stabbing you if you disagreed.

      I think I got tripped over the frames of reference/verb tense. I was taking the initial frame of reference to be primarily a modern Chinese Christian (who oddly upholds Hong Xiuquan, but probably isn't stabbing anyone), rather than actual 19th century people who definitely did a lot of violence.