Honestly the fact that Jesus hung out with prostitutes and was just like "yeah they're actually just as good as or better people than you, ya dumb priests" was insanely based for its day. And they emphasize it a lot. Later Christians seem to have instantly forgot that.
It's almost like religion is an agent of social control and a message that resonates with people has been perverted to enable the commission of atrocities, much like these national socialists I keep hearing about.
I'm not a religious person but it's clear that american christianity isn't about worshipping the values of jesus, it's about worshipping the values of america dresses up as jesus.
I took a writing course at uni called "searching for the historical Jesus." I went into the class with the American Christianity mindset and was salivating about the chance to show my professor what a fucking menace the comrade was. The most sinister shit he did in the gospels was murder a fig tree.
Matt's assertion that US Protestantism worships Mammon in the form of "America" is spot on
Hmm, not offhand. He's talked about it in a few cushvlogs within the past couple of months; maybe someone over at acidmarxism could be more specific.
Christianity is very weird in that its very obviously supposed to be a religion for lower classes, it spent a few hundreds of years as a perfectly good pacifist/anarchist cult, and then they changed it so much when it was made to be the state religion of Rome. The apostles never would have imagined that the church would one day own land, crown kings, and justify genocide
My favourite bit of the Bible is where Paul goes to Jerusalem and the Apostles are like "who even is this fucking grifter?"
Is it really Christmas if you and you local priests aren't actively waging a protracted people's war with the local equivalent of the EZLN?
Orrrr....Jesus comes back and leads the global proletariat to victory and the kingdom of heaven on earth. I mean, THAT end of the world doesn’t sound so bad!
General Secretary Jesus announces final purge of all counter revolutionary elements that have not recanted reactionary thinking.
