Honestly, the surprising thing about the Bible is that it's often thoughtful, equivocal, and even profound. You just have to actually read it.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
I think it's a skeleton key to so much cultural and literary content
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Replying to @anthrodiva @mssilverstein and
The actual Bible is tremendously more interesting than the "Bible verses" that most evangelicals interact with the Bible as Although, I guess, it would have to be, because it's hard to imagine anything less interesting than those anodyne lists of pearls of wisdom
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Replying to @arthur_affect @anthrodiva and
There's still Proverbs for that
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Replying to @mssilverstein @anthrodiva and
The most interesting thing about actually reading all the Proverbs without a pastor looking over your shoulder is how many of them are genuinely fucked up by modern standards and how many of them just straight up don't make sense because they're from an ancient foreign culture
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
You should try reading the bible while experiencing psychosis. Becomes pretty obvious that a lot of the people writing it were of the same mind.
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Replying to @PoPlaysGames @arthur_affect and
And when you realise that '666 the number of the beast' refers to the number of neutrons, protons and electrons in an atom of carbon 12, the singular element that is the basis of organic chemistry and all life on earth, that in the form of fossil fuels it is responsible for wars
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Replying to @PoPlaysGames @mssilverstein and
Yeah I knew someone this happened to in freshman year of college Gay dude who'd just come out and been disowned by his Pentecostal family, triggered a schizophrenic/manic episode Spent like two weeks obsessively reading the Bible and books about the Bible he checked out
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PoPlaysGames and
Engaging in hypergraphic scribbling to try to condense his new revelations into a new sacred text that could square the circle of all the contradictions he'd previously seen in Scripture and form a new, purified religion
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PoPlaysGames and
This is a very specific kind of psychosis that nonetheless is distressingly common, down to the last detail, in Christian and Christian-adjacent communities Damn fucking shame
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I don't know what happened to that guy after he withdrew for the semester and I feel bad about not being much of a friend to him at the time I kind of stopped talking to him after an hour-long lunch where he tried to convince me Obama's CEA chair was the Antichrist
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PoPlaysGames and
Her name was Christina Romer, you see "Christ" + "Rome", like the Beast in Revelation
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