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That’s the “Roman” part of Roman Catholicism, lol. The Jews certainly weren’t doing blood rituals and ceremonial cannibalism! 🤷
Jesus is not a demigod. He is both fully god and fully human and any suggestion to the contrary is heresy. /nsrs
It’s an important distinction. They are consuming simultaneously the flesh of a human being and an actual deity. That’s much less crazy.
His execution was barbaric and horrifying. Easily the worst day of his lives. We like to put up realistic statues depicting that moment wherever we can.
I agree, but also I can’t think of many ways of executing someone that don’t often count as the worst day of their life. Unless you torture them first on other days and give a painless execution
It’s so very weird. Imagine if he’d been hanged and people casually walked around wearing nooses. Or drawn and quartered…
The only reason it doesn’t seem batshit insane is because we’ve normalised it.
It’s like if JFK came back and we were all wearing little rifle pendants.
I shouldn’t be surprised , and yet…
Gross.
And they are expecting him to return one day. I can’t imagine he will be stoked to see all that iconography and be reminded of that awkward part. I’d have thought depictions of one of his sermons, or a carpentry tool, or just his name would have been better.
The execution is the whole point though. The Christian understanding of the Crucifixion isn’t just “our leader got tortured and killed and that’s sad,” it goes way deeper than that. The cross represents the very moment that human sin was forgiven due to the sacrifice of Jesus as a perfect, sinless being. Christians believe that the sacrifice (death on the cross) was the entire purpose of God incarnating on Earth in the first place. It’s not simply that God became a man to teach humans how to live, but rather the whole point was this moment of self/human sacrifice. So of Jesus was who Christians believe he was, he wouldn’t find it awkward at all.
Still super weird that a deity would need to sacrifice himself to himself, to forgive his own creation’s offspring for the actions of their ancestors who acted in the way he created it to (not knowing right from wrong ) when it ate the forbidden fruit said deity put in an easily accessible location…
Well, when you put it like that…
Good news, they’ll never have to find out. Just as nobody needs to worry about the return of other Mesopotamian gods or their judgement, Jesus isn’t coming back.
It’s a good thing, too, because if they actually read their scripture, Jesus wasn’t the hippie socialist they like to think he was. According to the book (if you don’t cherry pick it), he was just as vengeful as his father, and was fine with all the terrible and unjust things done by every other incarnation of himself.
Modern Christians would absolutely fall short of his judgement. Maybe the Amish would be okay. Maybe.
Oh ye of little faith!
He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
Are you the keymaster?
Yes… I’m a friend of his, he told me to meet him here.
Mind if I hang out? I brought some flowers and tranquilizers because I was expecting we would be going on a date.
I think it was carnival row that did that with their messianic religion?
Was that a Netflix series? I remember wanting to watch it. Did it get cancelled prematurely?
Amazon I think?
I was told when I was in school that the cross was a representation of his sacrifice, but then I saw some documentary about the cross having been an attempt by Constantine to market Christianity, or something like that, so… who knows?
That may well be true.
For what it’s worth, Constantine was a bloodthirsty zealot, so that kinda makes sense.
oh, So jesus was more like a quantum superimposition of god/mortal
rather than being half god half mortal
To the stake with them!
Hey that only took a few centuries to iron out. Arianism swept through northern eurasia and kind of stayed rooted until some crusading and a mongol horde or two displaced it for good.
Obligatory reminder that Negativland’s Christianity is Stupid exists for a reason
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Check out Midnight Mass. It’s a show with a similar and interesting perspective.
Well, the word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us, so eating the body and blood of Christ is just a metaphor for wholehearted acceptance of the word of God.
That was always the way I saw it, anyway.
If you are Catholic or Orthodox, it is most certainly not a metaphor. They believe that the bread and wine become the real flesh and blood of Christ on a metaphysical level.
But what about the Jefferson Bible? It’s literally a bunch of bros getting shit done
Also if your elders fuck kids and family/congregation members tell you you’re lying about being molested
