Or as I like to put it: Saul, Agent of Empire. (Yeah, right. "Paul". Like that Road to Damascus story wasn't just his cover.)https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/779109354356236288 …
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Paul is a... very interesting figure. Arguably more interesting than Jesus himself
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his writing is not the words of a man who is happy or at peace even though he preaches both of these things
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"I do not do what I want to do, and what I do not want to do I do, and this repulses me" is the heart of Paul's writing
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and arguably of the whole guilt/sin/atonement structure of what came to be called Christianity
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Agreed. I think he inverts the entire message of the Gospels, tbh, turns a "stumbling block" model of flaws into sin=stain.
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he clearly had very specific psychological issues that he was very effective at transmitting to others
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(but that's all religions isn't it)
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