RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
June 21, 2023 at 12:17 pm
I was recently leafing on archive.org through "The Children's Bible" from 1965 written by catholic theologians.
And I can tell you, Jesus was one bleached guy. Which makes sense because if you want to be famous you better bleach your hair - everyone know that from Jesus to Brittney Spears and even Taylor Swift occasionally.
Can you guess by just looking at this drawing who is the one good guy among bad ones?
And then the ending is my favorite: the new Jerusalem - the very last image in this book of over 600 pages
This is grownups explaining to kids of what they can look forward to when they die. Jesus is back in his kingdom of white and gold waiting for you to die. He has taste in decoration like Trump. The blue background is because the city is floating in the sky.
Also notice double defense walls and many turrets. They are expecting some evil armies to attack them from the outside. Heaven is basically a fortress. Not to mention a moat between the walls. What kind of crocodiles live there, I wonder. But I guess there is also a major flaw with this design because, since it is in the sky, the opposite army can just fly from below.
Then there is also the inner fortress at the center, also with double walling - probably for God himself. He doesn't trust the outer walls that much and probably doesn't trust the people who live there either.
There is also an arena. Perhaps for gladiator games. Maybe to punish those who try to break into God's central castle. Or when they capture enemy soldiers they can let them fight till death for fun.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"