Christian communism. Based.
When you look at the material conditions in which Christianity took hold, it actually is pretty revolutionary. It’s a religion based on the rejection of wealth formed in the periphery of a decaying imperialist empire. I’m not religious, but those revolutionary ideas are based as fuck
Im convinced of the exact opposite. I think that Christianity was a Roman psy-op that was designed to pacify a rebellious occupied Judea. Things that the new testament explicitly instructs worshippers to do include:
Don’t seek material wealth or power, those who do so are evil.
Remain meek and nonviolent, don’t seek liberation, and after you die you’ll get everything you would have wanted on earth and more.
Pool your resources and take care of yourselves and each other, but still pay your taxes.
When Roman soldiers attack you, don’t fight back.
Which is why those ideals were coopted by a religion and taken over by the Roman empire to manage and add authoritarian control by making it a God who said all this with their emperor being the only one able to appoint a pope who could clarify the messages in favor of how they wanted to rule.
The overwhelming consensus among credentialed historians is that Jesus was a real person who did in fact live during and in the when and where described in the Bible.
For some reason this consensus makes a lot of atheists angry. As an atheist myself, I’m not sure why. The fact that he’s almost certainly a real historical person doesn’t hurt my feelings at all and has no bearing whatsoever on the ways in which I arrive at my atheism.
this was my favorite veggietales episode
Watching Larry the cucumber and Bob the tomato literally eat the rich alive was a little traumatic as a child, but I’ve come to appreciate it as an adult.
That was their adult-oriented, biblically-accurate Christian metal spin-off. It didn’t get very many episodes though because some channels didn’t check the title and ratings, and aired the episodes during normal kids programming. Then fundies pitched a fit about how metal rots your soul and got the series cancelled.
It was one of the Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything episodes where the crew and several others were stranded on a desert island. They ran out of food and had to decide who to eat based on who wasn’t living by Jesus’ teachings. The weirdest part was that it kept switching between parodying Gilligan’s Island, Lord of the Flies, and Lost. The plot was really hard to follow up until the cannibalism musical number, then it kinda fit together.
Honestly I’m surprised they even released it as it was since, as far as I remember, it’s the only episode that showed any actual violence, even in a toned down PG kind of way.
Nietzsche called Christianity “slave morality” because he saw it as people accepting their poverty with the promise of reward in another life while the “masters” reaped all the benefits on earth.
I mean it’s ideals definetly started with people getting fed up over how money was getting aggregated, then it started getting tied to religion and the Roman empire coopted it to control any narratives, turning what was probably the first instance of eat the rich into we shall just wait to be rewarded. Like the turn the cheek phase was not meant to be submissive, it was meant to tell you how to make sure the slave owner when beeting you left a mark which was a way to earn freedom at that point in time. That got coopted into meaning to take punishment and not complain, which is fucking nuts. Guessing it’s why there are so many Jesus like story’s from that time frame about a dude born from a virgin, walking on water, etc. they tried numerous times to coopt the movement till it worked with Christianity.
I agree with this vegetable
Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.
-Ezekiel 23:19-21
