Idk the message there is actually pretty good. If they follow the teachings of their prophet, then they’d leave us the hell alone.
A lot of things in Christianity are very good, they’ve just been co- opted by right wing conservatives for 2000 years who say one thing and then do the opposite.
Exactly this. Jesus was a pretty cool dude. Organised Christianity though, not so much.
It’s wild the things people justify based on one man getting nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other.
Sorta.
The hegetsus ad campaign made it very clear who was “Christian” and who was “other”. If you were having your feet washed you were: immigrant/LGBT/alternative/brown. If you were washing feet you were a WASP.
Part of that is their target audience is WASPs. Inasmuch as they’re able to deradicalize WASPs that’s a good thing… But they’re further entrenching a narrative of white Christian saviors here to serve the poor dumb “other”, which is toxic.
It seems like it is meant to show though the people around her do not follow her faith, that she still treats them with kindness. I don’t care if Christian’s think of me as an “other”. I only care that they keep that to themselves and show kindness. We’re all hypocrites in some way or another anyway.
The message isn’t bad, but the image is bizarre in a lot of ways. Like I get that Jesus washed people’s feet… but why is this happening in the middle of the hallway in a high school? Why is she just dumping the water out on the floor instead of into a tub or basin? There’s a lot of AI generated logic here…
It’s meant to be clickbait. You stop and remark on how silly it is, then you notice the message of not being a dick, and then things that make you go hmm. Something like that lol
Well they are following their prophet. He wanted them to follow the word of the god of the Old Testament. He was just a PR man for a religion that continued to push slavery, misogyny, hate for pretty much anyone who didn’t follow along with their religion.
No where in their good book does this Jesus fella ever disband any of that horrible shit the god did years before, and Christians throughout history and up to today continue to push that horrible worldview.
It depends on which aspect you’re talking about.
As a religion, an organization, they are no different. The push the concept of a deity you must obey because you are a human damned by pure existence because their monster of a god says so. While individuals may try and spin their religion how they want, their book and their message is all about abuse.
What makes historical christians worse is they have been the center of a lot of the world’s destruction, using their religion to justify their bigotry and abuse as being divinely inspired. Judaism only held that honor during it’s infancy.
Modern times aren’t really any better. Christian Nationalism isn’t making anything up when they push their xenophobic hatred of others. It all comes from a literal reading of the Bible. But then you see things like HeGetsUs. Go do research on the group funding these ads. They are an organization that funds extreme conservative politicians who seek to turn the US into a theocratic state. It’s all a PR stunt to get people on board with voting for “christian values” not realizing that the values they are pushing is anti LGBTQ, anti religious freedom, anti science, anti education policies.
Yahweh said you could own the heathen around you as your property ans beat them as long as you dont kill them. Jesus said Slaves obey your masters, even the cruel ones. The Abrahamic religions today haven’t gotten any better. Its just that now Christians are starting to say the silent part out loud. Jesus loves you…even though you are an evil sinner who deserves hell.
He also liked washing the feet of the prostitutes, Jesus was a kinky bitch.
i always thought the foot washing thing was creepy and gross
i suspect jesus (if indeed there even ever was an actual specific dude matching his description) had a foot fetish
I always understood washing feet to mean putting yourself into a lower position to teach yourself or show humbleness.
Sort of similar to how some Indian cultures people prostrate and touch the feet of elders to show respect.
he get sus 😳
If you honestly believe that Jesus was a good guy, please read the Bible.
I’m so tired of people claiming Jesus was a good guy Jesus was this and that. He’s a character that pretended to be a prophet.
Imagine somone came to you today telling you he’s talking to God. Do you A listen to him or B move to the other side of the street because he’s a lunatic. So why would you believe it based on stories written down by anonymous sources decades after the proposed events?
Most of the shit in the Bible is made up, including stories about Jesus. You hoping Christians would only listen to the nice parts of the Bible is the equivalent of mother fuckers trying to skate uphil.
You cannot combat lies with your preferred lies. The only way to combat lies is the truth.
And the truth is that we almost have no idea what Jesus said or did. We have hearsay accounts decades after his death with conflicting stories and straight up magic, curses and enchantments.
He was a mythological character who in all likelihood did not exist at all.
Discussing the different literary incarnations of a character can be constructive and instructive for understanding the people that create these myths and for whom the myths resonate.
It’s worth considering that the things people tend to highlight about jesus’s behavior are the things that we would today consider good and righteous rather then the petty bitch stuff he is also known for.
I’d like to encourage people to care about the poor, contempt the wealthy, shun the violent, pity the misanthrope, help downtrodden, comfort the suffering, and open their arms to embrace humanity.
Since the whole story is made up in the first place perhaps we get to choose the parts of it that we think need to survive. The myth doesn’t need to be real for compassion to be worth investing with faith.
The parts of the Bible that talk about Jesus were written after he died. I don’t think there’s any evidence that Jesus considered himself a profit. He called himself the son of God, but all Christians call God “our father,” pray to “him,” and “listen” for “messages,” so I don’t think you should read into it too much. It was his apostles who promoted him as a diety.
If your only evidence that Jesus was a bad person is that he either didn’t exist or was delusional, I don’t think you have any evidence that he was a bad person.
Real or fake, delusional or not, the actions he’s said to have taken and the messages he’s said to have said are indisputably good.
