Jesus and his first followers were flaming commies, as well-demonstrated by his strong opinions about the money changers and almost everything else attributed directly to him. Thus the “pink to bright red” bit. That’s just me editorializing.
The original red letter movement was explicitly created as a counter-movement to the “prosperity gospel”, the same folks who retconned the ‘eye of the needle’ into some ahistorical bullshit about non-existent city gates with awful UX. The link in my first comment gives more context to the modern movement and wikipedia has a concise article on the historical movement too.
I left organized religion completely because I was such a naive schmuck as a child that I actually thought I was supposed to emulate Jesus in every way possible. You know, a moron.
When you keep running into the tangled maze of justifications for anti-christian social rules, it tends to create cognitive dissonance. That only resolves by doubling down on denial or by letting the whole edifice collapse.
I have learned absolutely nothing since childhood and still foolishly insist that living in a way that is compatible with Jesus’ core teachings is a good idea.
Some bibles put Jesus’s words in red and everything else in black. The red letter movement is about emphasizing the words in red over the rest, with some going as far as to ignore the rest.
Well, I believe Jefferson made his own edits; not just taking the direct quotations to Jesus Christ. So Jefferson and the red letter group work from different, but overlapping subsets of the scripture.
is there some significance to the color i’m missing? i have an old red letter bible, but i think we’re thinking of different things
I sort of mixed some metaphors there too.
Jesus and his first followers were flaming commies, as well-demonstrated by his strong opinions about the money changers and almost everything else attributed directly to him. Thus the “pink to bright red” bit. That’s just me editorializing.
The original red letter movement was explicitly created as a counter-movement to the “prosperity gospel”, the same folks who retconned the ‘eye of the needle’ into some ahistorical bullshit about non-existent city gates with awful UX. The link in my first comment gives more context to the modern movement and wikipedia has a concise article on the historical movement too.
I left organized religion completely because I was such a naive schmuck as a child that I actually thought I was supposed to emulate Jesus in every way possible. You know, a moron.
When you keep running into the tangled maze of justifications for anti-christian social rules, it tends to create cognitive dissonance. That only resolves by doubling down on denial or by letting the whole edifice collapse.
I have learned absolutely nothing since childhood and still foolishly insist that living in a way that is compatible with Jesus’ core teachings is a good idea.
Some bibles put Jesus’s words in red and everything else in black. The red letter movement is about emphasizing the words in red over the rest, with some going as far as to ignore the rest.
so like the movement is an extension of that thomas jefferson de-miracled bible or something?
Well, I believe Jefferson made his own edits; not just taking the direct quotations to Jesus Christ. So Jefferson and the red letter group work from different, but overlapping subsets of the scripture.
More like the protestant version of liberation theology