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If Jesus - a poor, brown-skinned, Middle-Eastern, Jewish, socialist, refugee hippie who spent his time hanging out with prostitutes, kissing men on the lips, and telling people to pay their taxes and take care of the poor and sick - were here today, conservatives would have him back up on the cross before the end of the week.
conservatives would have him back up on the cross before the end of the week.
I mean the conservatives of his time did just that. So why would it be different today?
Today they’d be chanting “Not My Jesus” while holding upside-down Bibles or something.
That seems optimistic.
Plus there’s the part where Jesus warned his followers about more or less exactly this, in such vivid detail that it gave us the idiom “wolves in sheep’s clothing” that we still use. As the cherry on top, he mentions that despite how simple it is to just pay attention to what they say and notice that it will be misanthropic bullshit, tons of people will be taken in, and to not be one of them because you don’t want the smoke.
You couldn’t get away with writing our reality as background lore for a story. No reader would accept it. “So, this political faction is word-for-word the bad people in a detailed prophecy, one which they purport to believe, and the only way you address it is by having them say ‘nuh uh librul ur a gay homo’? Get fucking real, people don’t act like that. You should take a creative writing course.”
Missing a panel in there where he proceeds to miraculously multiply the tacos and feed the poor
A taco truck on every corner!
Holy shit, a Shavepost in the wild?!
I’m sadly not her(?) but I know you post them often and so I looked around if there was another :3
She’s a legend. I’ve been following her for years at this point.
I love it here seeing moments like these
The Gandi quote about Jesus isn’t actually from him. However, Indian philosopher Bara Dada in the mid-1920s did say, “Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians, you are not like him.” So it was probably a common thought among non-Christian believers.
the “I identify as non-bidenary” is so fucking funny though
I use a similar phrase to replace “no” when my wife asks me questions:
“Did they have any orange soda at the store?”
*scoffs* Not in Biden’s America."
I’m not convinced Jesus was a realist. I think He might have been a soulist. After all, He told His disciples that if they had enough faith in themselves, they could do miracles just like His. I think maybe He wanted everyone to ascend to divinity.
