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.

  • 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.