Popes Francis’ #Beatitudes papacy makes him one of the most important #antifa politicians of our era because,

[roknrol@beige.party]

@blogdiva Somehow I think the guys that defiled and then resold the Bible aren't going to care what Popes and Cardinals think.

[c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza]

@msbellows

People forget/overlook the fact that the historical Jesus (what little is known), was a poor, illiterate peasant, and preached to people of his own class: The poor, the dispossessed, the oppressed, and those who were at the bottom of the social/political hierarchy.

The better off in the area had sold their allegiance to Rome and the Empire. The imperial government executed Jesus for sedition; crucifixion was a common method. All the stuff about the various Jewish factions was invented later, as was so much of the NT.

@InkySchwartz @blogdiva

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@blogdiva

Psychopaths and their followers, like Pete Hegseth, think calling or a holy war is doing God's business. In fact, he's doing the psychopath's business and calling him a god, which is another of the gravest sins.

[mwyman@mastodon.social]

@msbellows @InkySchwartz @blogdiva “blessed are the warmongers, for they shall leave a trail of holy devastation across the land”

[mwyman@mastodon.social]

@c_merriweather @msbellows @InkySchwartz @blogdiva why the “prosperity gospel” people are so obscene

[eldersea@expressional.social]

@blogdiva
Hey, look at who saw trump for what he was and have been remarkably consistently right.
https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/catholics-support-for-trump-s-agenda-has-not-significantly-changed-pew-report-says
@Kerplunk

[c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza]

@blogdiva Not an <anything> religious. Just a student of history, and interested in the different paths the early Jesus-movement could have taken.

Paul and his followers were mostly to blame for misdirecting the message; they took it out of its very Jewish origin and made it into a Hellenistic mystery religion. After the sack of Jerusalem (70 CE), there was no Jewish foundation left for the Paulinists to have to avoid. They ran with the mystery religion and turned a Jewish (not) messiah into the mythic Christ.
It was all downhill from there. You get people worshiping a quasi-deity, instead of trying to live the message he taught.

And then there were the early "heresies," some of which might have been better directions, if the early "Church" hadn't crushed them (like the Gnostics, and the Gospel of Thomas).

So, reasonably good messages, (from a poor, illiterate Jewish peasant, who had come to some understanding of his world), which were totally convoluted by the so-called Christians.

[tlariv@mastodon.cloud]

@wyatt_h_knott
Because it would have been such a loss when he changed his name.
@blogdiva

[c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza]

@mwyman

Full out heretics.

@msbellows @InkySchwartz @blogdiva

[watarutenkawa_1@social.vivaldi.net]

@c_merriweather @blogdiva I wrote my final exam along the same lines when in theological school back in 1967 (and got an A).

[3janeta@beige.party]

@msbellows @InkySchwartz @blogdiva this is the table flipping I’m hoping Talarico brings to the conversation

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@blogdiva When you look at this graph from the Pew article, there is one conclusion: Black Protestants have been right all along. No other group of people did as well, even religiously unaffiliated.

Maybe we should listen to them more.

#uspol #trump