There is a reason why the discovery of the Gnostic Gospels was not publicized. The clergy and MTG’s who have hijacked Christianity prefer a dogmatic religion mediated by them.
Jesus’ “message” was more like poetry allowing the individual a direct experience with the numinous. More akin to Eastern mysticism and, dare I say, the philosophy of many Atheists. He probably was just one hippie amongst many but happened to go viral.
I mean you don’t often get an whole anthology dedicated to how much you told people they must show unconditional love and acceptance to everyone they meet unless your really dedicated to it.
Many of us grow up disappointed whether brought up religious or not. I was brought up Catholic and took it seriously but then as a teen I noticed the hypocrisy of church goers and of course, as all teens do, I understood adults lie about all sorts of stuff so why not religion.
There is desperate need for the concept of the Gnostic to take its rightful place in Christianity as a whole, there needs to be a reformation and I wish I had the resources and skills to start it.
There is such a stark difference between the compassionate, personal, and community-driven message Jesus spoke as compared to the insular, socially stingy, and hierarchical lives that his conservative supposed followers live.
And the sad thing is I really think they’d be a lot happier if they gave up on their worldly obsessions and bigotries and ACTUALLY read what he said. I know I am.
Oh I’m no stranger to how the right has perverted Jesus’s message, and have been bitter about that for some time.
It’s just… SO frustrating that they are so blind to hypocrisy especially considering what Jesus thought about outward displays of holiness with their mouths spouting the stench of rotting corpses.
If Jesus were alive today he’d take a lash to every fuckdamn one of them.
her conduct seems plenty christian to me.
As a progressive Christian who hates everything MTG stands for, this is kind of disheartening to hear…
I’m happily oblivious much of to (I assume) US politics, so I’m going to read this as if you’re talking about Magic the Gathering.
I thought it was the conservative Christians who hate MTG…
And D&D and ICP and so many other things wonderful to me
They rail and they rally and burn books you see
“We must protect kids in the Land of the Free”
Samuel Johnson, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
Many would trade a lot to be as blissfully ignorant.
I am not even sure how so much hate and ignorance lives in one woman without causing her to have constant strokes.
There is a reason why the discovery of the Gnostic Gospels was not publicized. The clergy and MTG’s who have hijacked Christianity prefer a dogmatic religion mediated by them.
Jesus’ “message” was more like poetry allowing the individual a direct experience with the numinous. More akin to Eastern mysticism and, dare I say, the philosophy of many Atheists. He probably was just one hippie amongst many but happened to go viral.
I mean you don’t often get an whole anthology dedicated to how much you told people they must show unconditional love and acceptance to everyone they meet unless your really dedicated to it.
Most nights I fall asleep wondering what a world where most people were like that would look like.
A shitton better than the one we have I’ll say that right now.
Many of us grow up disappointed whether brought up religious or not. I was brought up Catholic and took it seriously but then as a teen I noticed the hypocrisy of church goers and of course, as all teens do, I understood adults lie about all sorts of stuff so why not religion.
Just now YouTube served me up this: Mom Puts Teenage Acidhead In A Mental Hospital In 1967.
It is as if LSD let him experience the Jesus state. No wonder clerics feared it - who needs them?
There is desperate need for the concept of the Gnostic to take its rightful place in Christianity as a whole, there needs to be a reformation and I wish I had the resources and skills to start it.
There is such a stark difference between the compassionate, personal, and community-driven message Jesus spoke as compared to the insular, socially stingy, and hierarchical lives that his conservative supposed followers live.
And the sad thing is I really think they’d be a lot happier if they gave up on their worldly obsessions and bigotries and ACTUALLY read what he said. I know I am.
in all honesty, you should have been disheartened long before this article, or my comment.
Oh I’m no stranger to how the right has perverted Jesus’s message, and have been bitter about that for some time.
It’s just… SO frustrating that they are so blind to hypocrisy especially considering what Jesus thought about outward displays of holiness with their mouths spouting the stench of rotting corpses.
If Jesus were alive today he’d take a lash to every fuckdamn one of them.