• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Western Christianity was co-opted by the Roman state with predictable consequences. But it was already “founded”. There was no undoing the fact that core Christianity was “do no resist an evil person”, “turn the other cheek”, “love your enemy” etc. All features that are inconvenient to a would-be organiser of religious wars.

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      15 hours ago

      Jesus was a long haired, brown skinned, hippie from the middle east.

      American Christians would have drone striked him.

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        14 hours ago

        Yes, I think Jesus would be almost unique in drawing equal amounts of hate from both the left and right of America. Telling people to lay down their arms while being against gay marriage will do that lol