The old testament is all about a people who keep fucking up by adopting the shitty practices of the people around them, then being shamed into being better for a while. And then the person who called them out dies or leaves… But if they stay they get too comfortable with power and abuse it. Some of them are assholes the whole way through… It’s about history and notable figures, it’s not aspirational at all
Then the gospels are a how to guide to living under an occupying state.
No temples, we just share meals now. No relics, water is holy now. No leaders, we all serve each other. No money, no stock piles, no rich people - let the tax man have nothing to take. No open resistance to invite a crackdown, instead we’re going to just be really, really obnoxious to deal with through third path shit
It worked so well Rome straight up massacred the communes to stop the spread, and it was still spreading underground until Constantine slapped Jesus branding on the Roman religion.
Finally, I’m not sure what Revelations is about, but it has cool imagery
The Bible really hits different when you don’t have someone explaining each passage one by one going “oh, that wasn’t mutual aid, that was magic”
This is completely false. There is a reading guide that Catholics are encouraged to follow every day. I think it traverses the entire Bible every 3 years in this manner, with everyone reading the same passages at the same time to encourage discussion.
You might be thinking old school, back when mass was in Latin.
Bible is like the Constitution. Some people don’t read it.
Because they’d be atheists if they actually did. The ones who read it and stay Christians are just sociopaths.
It made me a leftist lol.
The old testament is all about a people who keep fucking up by adopting the shitty practices of the people around them, then being shamed into being better for a while. And then the person who called them out dies or leaves… But if they stay they get too comfortable with power and abuse it. Some of them are assholes the whole way through… It’s about history and notable figures, it’s not aspirational at all
Then the gospels are a how to guide to living under an occupying state.
No temples, we just share meals now. No relics, water is holy now. No leaders, we all serve each other. No money, no stock piles, no rich people - let the tax man have nothing to take. No open resistance to invite a crackdown, instead we’re going to just be really, really obnoxious to deal with through third path shit
It worked so well Rome straight up massacred the communes to stop the spread, and it was still spreading underground until Constantine slapped Jesus branding on the Roman religion.
Finally, I’m not sure what Revelations is about, but it has cool imagery
The Bible really hits different when you don’t have someone explaining each passage one by one going “oh, that wasn’t mutual aid, that was magic”
Catholics are discouraged from interacting directly with the Bible. Priests are supposed to be the mediators between the faithful and the doctrine.
This is completely false. There is a reading guide that Catholics are encouraged to follow every day. I think it traverses the entire Bible every 3 years in this manner, with everyone reading the same passages at the same time to encourage discussion.
You might be thinking old school, back when mass was in Latin.