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Schmargaret's avatar

Then the GOP should also be cool with Islam call to prayer 5 times a day in the rotunda.

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babaganusz's avatar

lol, like they have the emotional bandwidth to abandon special pleading for The One True Righteous Team — oh what? Vance is Catholic and almost everyone else in the maladministration isn't? Meh, hem, haw, sweep under rug ...

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Keenan Kline's avatar

White Jesus got me thinking. Not a religious scholar mind you, but wasn't Jesus of Nazareth a Jew for his entire corporeal life?

Did Jesus ever become a Christian?

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Lois Henry's avatar

He would have had to follow himself. Self-worship by the leader in the White House right now exposes the problems associated with that sort of thing.

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Keenan Kline's avatar

So are the travails of the self-anointed. On we trudge or abide, whatever.

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babaganusz's avatar

That's a cute little diversion for some flavor of Baptist or other ... They 'date' the start of Christianity from when Main Character was supposedly baptized by John the not-yet-headless Baptist

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GMBH's avatar

Plus, the brand of Christianity these guys are advocating isn’t Christian, as this article so beautifully describes it. https://open.substack.com/pub/johnpavlovitz/p/dear-jesus-youre-fired-from-maga?r=elmqn&utm_medium=ios

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babaganusz's avatar

It's perhaps comforting to attribute the "true path" to anyone who touted/touts scripture to prosocial &or progressive ends, but there's enough material in 'official' (according to ... ???) scripture to 'justify' just about any damn thing.

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Pamela J Detwiler's avatar

I'm from Indiana and I detest Mike Braun. I truly hope he gets voted out of office. But our state is ruby red.

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Ed Johnson's avatar

I just love the blasphemous depiction of Jesus in that stupid red hat.

And no, Jesus did not enter the world as a northern European. Fuck you megan kelly.

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TM's avatar

Isn't Jesus Christ, by definition, a Christian? 🤷‍♀️

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babaganusz's avatar

And don't even get me started on Justin or Marcion ...

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babaganusz's avatar

Depends whose folklore you lean towards. There are zero secular records of who or what he was.

In no particular order:

"Matthew" cherry-picked & stretched scripture in an effort to convert as many Torah-observant folks as possible. "Mark" pushed the Pauline innovation that dudes didn't have to get circumcised to sign up. Luke pretended to be a 'historian' about the whole thing. (Of course nobody preserved his notes on how to separate wishful thinking & just-so stories from confirmed reportage.) "John" ... used a brilliant combination of anonymity & celebrity to spin all [contemporary] kinds of antisemitism-mongering.

The tales that had fallen out of favor by the time an 'official' New Testament was compiled ... get a lot scarier and sillier. Revelations almost didn't make it!

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