Can I be your wife? I’d join a cheese cult.

The heat is clearly caused by ball lightning igniting the swamp gas.

Anarchy doesn’t work because humans suck. Telling someone to grow up when you have such a hugely childish perspective is hilarious.

There is a TikTok channel as well as a book.

Plenty of scholars believe he didn’t exist. Please check out Christ Before Jesus for more information.

I’m not sure I’ll ever get over how arrogant and simple-minded Pascal’s Wager is. The whole premise is either Christianity or nothing; it doesn’t account for any other religion. I just find it hilarious.

I was a reddit user for, idk, 13 years? I forget. Came here in 2023 because of the API shenanigans. The official reddit app sucked then and still sucks today. I open reddit maybe once a year, sigh, and close it again.

Lemmy has become so much better since joining, as far as apps go. Glad I left.

You have to work very hard to be as purposely obtuse as you’re being. Maybe take a break, champ.

Innit

I’d argue that, while there are many - odd - translations (new urban bible, new living translation, new American translation, among others), there are some very good recent academic translations which shouldn’t be included in that. NRSVue and NOAB come to mind as excellent academic translations accessible to the everyday person.

It’s just unfortunate that so many people got duped into this religion by books that were making excuses and purposely translating apologetically.

Christianity is untrue either way, but some recent translations make it far more apparent than others.

Why should they get their interpretation from an apologetic translation written in the 1600s? There are many better versions with more accurate translations and include so many things that have been found since then.

If the context in the KJV was wrong, why shouldn’t it be updated?

Yep. If I’m going out to get a really good steak, I give less than an ounce of a fuck what it comes with.

Chicago is such a self-important city for people with no sense of the world.

Jesus absolutely did not say that. He said to follow the law.

Matthew 5:17-20 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven."

This, but sexy