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Jesus could have been an antique meme à la Chuck Norris that got waaaay out of hand (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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All we have are scriptures and texts that could have been a series of meme that built/improved from eachother but lost the common knowledge between the generations that it was fictional.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

This sort of thing happens all the time, good intentions getting twisted over time.

Iirc the reason you’re not allowed to depict Muhammad, for example, was because Muhammad didn’t want pictures of to be used to worship him. He didn’t want to be deified basically.

Cut to today and his followers will literally kill anyone that even tries, even those outside of the religion, due to their worship of Muhammad, something that he clearly never would have wanted. It literally goes against the reason he had the rule in the first place.