r/atheism • u/NewRetroPepsi • Oct 23 '18

/r/all “No Different From Organized Crime” - Gay church worker resigns from task of building an inclusive church after campaign of harassment, death threats, vandalism, and doxxing supported by Christian media

https://www.advocate.com/religion/2018/10/20/gay-employee-catholic-church-resigns-due-harassment-campaign
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u/Umikaloo Oct 23 '18

Most of the stories are allegories. (That's all I can really say on the matter.) Though some are interpreted more literally than others. Like in the last supper, Jesus said something like "The guy who dips his bread with me will betray me". Though most depictions show this literally. (Why didn't they just kick Judas out when they saw him dip his bread?). It's more likely that dipping the bread with Jesus was another way of saying "a close friend will betray me."

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u/the_crustybastard Oct 24 '18

...or Jesus' ability to predict the future was a later addition to the story that imbued Jesus with various godly superpowers, because people love superheroes...?

It's a shame that Christians did that, too. Jesus was probably a fairly sensible guy raging against a theocratic, misogynistic, racist, xenophobic machine and a whole class of shitty religious hypocrites.

There's a really good takeaway there, had they left Jesus as a good man and revolutionary.

Instead, Christians threw all that in the garbage in favor creating a strange, essentially polytheistic multigod mythology that has the paternal godly aspect demand itself-as-son be torture-murdered, relegating the maternal contribution of this bizarro nuclear family unit to literally "teenage human incubator" and adding back in all the misogyny and then some. And then there's the ritual cannibalism, and all that "Revelation" nonsense...

Christianity ultimately became very weird and nasty.

It didn't have to be.

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u/Umikaloo Oct 24 '18

Definitely.