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[–] nickiwest 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're actually curious about this, Elaine Pagels has a really great book about this. The book of Revelation was just a thinly-veiled series of jabs at specific people and the politics of the time.

Her interpretation is that it would have been blatantly obvious to John's contemporaries, but it's opaque to us now because we're so far removed from that time period.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

huh. Interesting.

so something similar to Dante's Inferno, which is basically a long shitpost about contemporary politics that over time diffused into religious culture?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Yup. It's a big fat rant propaganda against nero. And it worked - our perception of nero has been viewed through that lens for centuries