I'm not religious, but I have read the New Testament many times when I was younger, and parts of the Quran and the Old Testament, and er... reading such things really puts you off religion, some really nasty shit and hypocritical stuff. It was so horrible I had to stop reading or risk turning into an active religion hater.
Christians... surely they are supposed to follow Christ? Yet his stories and opinions seem to be glossed over in favour of tiresome rules and regs from Paul who never even met Jesus. It's been set up to control the masses, and squeeze money out of them.
If you actually read the Jesus bits, the whole thing can be boiled down to "don't be a dick" and anyone can follow that, yet few do, and there are apocrypha where the role of women is much more equal, hints are there in the gospels, but watered down by Roman patriarchy when the "official" New Testament was collated and put together to bolster the papacy, hundreds of years after Jesus died. The history of the New Testament is... awkward when you look into it.
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Date: 2022-05-07 06:46 pm (UTC)Christians... surely they are supposed to follow Christ? Yet his stories and opinions seem to be glossed over in favour of tiresome rules and regs from Paul who never even met Jesus. It's been set up to control the masses, and squeeze money out of them.
If you actually read the Jesus bits, the whole thing can be boiled down to "don't be a dick" and anyone can follow that, yet few do, and there are apocrypha where the role of women is much more equal, hints are there in the gospels, but watered down by Roman patriarchy when the "official" New Testament was collated and put together to bolster the papacy, hundreds of years after Jesus died. The history of the New Testament is... awkward when you look into it.