Hol’up. [Religious institution] distorts “scripture” to serve empire? Since when?! 😱 Oh, wait. Since forever. 😶
No distortion needed. Whatever you’re looking for is in there somewhere.
If it isn’t, just do like the Mormons or the Jehovah’s Witnesses or Martin Luther…retranslate, choose different works, or make up new ones.
Fun facts! Martin Luther was known for his chronic constipation and made a point to jot notes on the can, so it is a strongly non-zero chance that what would become the Lutheran faith (Protestant first, yes) was spawned while he pinched one off or bore down in prep for the same.
Also, apparently bringing this historical fact to the attention of Lutheran church elders as a teen in the 80s-90s (pre-internet citation access) is frowned upon — or, so I’m told. 😶
The difference between a cult and a religion is state/empire approval/alliance, and the power of a religion is to deliver a flock to political demonism, completely independent/against of any principle of god. Where Jewish supremacist genocidal and apartheid zionism controls the state, they find natural allies with oligarchy because Israel usually asks for so little in comparison to rest of oligarchy, relative to their elections control. Corrupting politicians with a religious base, is easier by corrupting pastors to obtain more private planes, to deliver the souls of their flocks to the most demonic evil that pays them to do so.
In addition to OP’s verse pretending that “Christians must be Jewish/Israel supremacists” instead of considering some of Jesus’s/new testament differences with Judaism, the other big brainwashing misprioritization of the bible is the revelations prophesy of rapture connected to helping Israel fabricate a rapture.
