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[–] CosmicCleric 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

TBF it kinda is Christianity tho.

Which Christianity? Jesus', or today's modern-day Evangelical?

[–] afraid_of_zombies 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The same Christianity that wiped out the pagan faiths of Europe via mass murder, led a series of bloody wars into the "Holy" Land, plunged the former empire into the dark ages, burned books and people, repeatedly murdered each other over doctrine and any minority they could grab, built instruments of torture to go after supposed heretics, and not content with the horrors they subjected parts of the Middle East and all of Europe to went forward and introduced their rot to the rest of the world.

That Christianity. The burning at the stake, stabbing homosexuals with fire pokers, the genocidal against the Jews, the rape and pillage of Arab lands, the Christianity that imprisoned and tortured any free thinker. The same one that even today is quickly working to "deal" with the Muslims and the trans.

And why shouldn't it be exactly like that? The whole thing is modeled after one of the most repulsive characters in all of fiction.

[–] CosmicCleric 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about individuals. You're talking about institutions. An institution is not made of 100% of individuals that all think exactly the same.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 1 points 7 months ago

Pat Robertson is an individual. Want to talk about him?

[–] CosmicCleric 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The same Christianity that wiped out the pagan faiths of Europe via mass murder, led a series of bloody wars into the “Holy” Land, plunged the former empire into the dark ages, burned books and people, repeatedly murdered each other over doctrine and any minority they could grab, built instruments of torture to go after supposed heretics, and not content with the horrors they subjected parts of the Middle East and all of Europe to went forward and introduced their rot to the rest of the world.

You keep being intellectually dishonest. The Crusades and the other things you described were not done by Jesus, they were done by other men centuries later.

There's a clear disembarkation in philosophy between what Jesus spoke of and taught, and what regular people throughout the ages interpreted what he said as, for their own personal benefits.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 1 points 7 months ago

There’s a clear disembarkation in philosophy between what Jesus spoke of and taught, and what regular people throughout the ages interpreted what he said as, for their own personal benefits.

Nothing in the Bible doesn't align with the crusades