And Christianity, as the religion that pushed idealism in the Greek sense all over the world, being all about promising this final victory of the person you wished you were over the actual flawed you that exists Someday you will be the REAL you, who didn't do those things
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And then this shit won't matter anymore And the language and imagery used is violent, vicious, brutal -- that fake you, the wrong you, will be defeated, beaten, broken, smashed, KILLED, BURIED, THROWN INTO THE FIRE AND BURNED TO ASH
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This idea of violently tearing yourself out of a filthy chrysalis to emerge brand new, innocent, and free, and clean It's this really raw deep psychological stuff The Passion followed by the Resurrection Tortured to death on the Cross, then the stone rolling away from the tomb
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Death and rebirth, the symbolism of baptism And I go with the theory that baptism was originally a lot more hardcore, that the point of it is traumatic initiation, simulated drowning They held you down until you thought you were actually going to die
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Christianity is, well, it's a very BDSM religion And it's very bipolar I mean Paul's rants in his letters are *incredibly* familiar if you've experienced bipolar mood swings or seen them in someone else
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This is what happens, when you WRITERS ROOM YOUR FUCKING RELIGIOUS NARRATIVE!
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Christianity is basically just a fanfic fandom that got way too jazzed on its own hype and was certain it’s work outdid the original.
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I mean I read a book (when I was a questioning Christian losing my faith) by a Jewish author giving a very harsh "review" of the New Testament as part of a biography of Paul Saying that as a work of literature it was obvious that it was the garbage testament
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Replying to @TellerGrim @Vokaalit and
I don't remember anymore, I guess I'll look
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I *think* it was The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity by Hyam Maccoby
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