(December 28, 2020 at 3:59 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Without having watched the video, it seems a logical progression from misunderstood teachings about Jesus and civics.
Or maybe they are understood teachings of Jesus, considering that Jesus believed that birds put no effort into hunting for berries, seeds, insects, fish because "heavenly Father feedeth them" - making a stupid conclusion that humans should not bother hunting, gathering, or farming. So if John Frum's teachings about not caring about anything because he will provide them with everything when he comes back are based on Jesus' teachings, then it shows Jesus' teachings are counterproductive since these people, as you can see, don't do anything or strive to anything so-called materialistic.
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"