(July 30, 2020 at 2:45 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Here's just one of the examples that they'd be following.
TLDR version. A subhuman asks jesus for help with her sick subhuman daughter. Jesus reminds her that she's subhuman, and when she makes a self deprecating joke funny enough to make jesus laugh about her being a subhuman, he agrees to help.
If they followed the example of that asshole......what again?
Christianity was never a decent religion. It is the belief that killing the other man, the better man (for some values of better, as above), will positively effect your moral value and future existential state. To be a christian, a person must believe in christ. It's their fundamental unit of identification, and, sadly, an irreparable mistake of their worldview. It began as garbage, it hasn't gotten worse, because it never could have in the first place.
-and I know, I know, I've heard it already "Well, I'm a christian/I know a christian and I/they don't believe that" - Then, as their own witchdoctors are always loudly telling them and anyone else who will listen.....they don't believe. They're just cultural christians.
You do not seem to know that in the first century, there were about 80 different Christian sects already and most thought more like the Chrestians than what Christianity became after they usurped that view of god and incorporated those idea into Christianity. They were a man above god ideology before becoming literalist fools of the god above man variety.
Things were quite nice before that epoch. Even for atheists. I hope the following is not TLDR for you.
I hope you can see how intelligent the ancients were as compared to the mental efforts that modern preachers and theists are using with the literal reading of myths.
https://bigthink.com/videos/what-is-god-2-2
Further.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03132009/watch.html
Rabbi Hillel, the older contemporary of Jesus, said that when asked to sum up the whole of Jewish teaching, while he stood on one leg, said, "The Golden Rule. That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the Torah. And everything else is only commentary. Now, go and study it."
Please listen as to what is said about the literal reading of myths.
"Origen, the great second or third century Greek commentator on the Bible said that it is absolutely impossible to take these texts literally. You simply cannot do so. And he said, "God has put these sort of conundrums and paradoxes in so that we are forced to seek a deeper meaning."
Matt 7;12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
This is how early Gnostic Christians view the transition from reading myths properly to destructive literal reading and idol worship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR02cian...=PLCBF574D
Regards
DL