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When will America stop worshipping the Christian god in favor of legit worshipping companies? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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This question is a joke. Also, the mods should add a joke tag to allow dumb answers.

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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Indeed. Wasn't one of the commandments to avoid false idols and stuff? And wasn't one of Jesus' things about you being able to directly pray to god or something? Just saying, the church is and always has been a scam, a political institution used to better control the masses, especially applicable in large population nations and empires (like the Roman Empire), loosely based on ideas of some guys' teachings. And that's the case for all organised religion.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    there are stories that in the Councils to determine which gospels to include in the New Testament, one of the first gospels to be deemed heretical was one where Jesus argued against the establishment of a church …

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Do you have a link on that? that genuinely sounds like an interesting thing to read into

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    heads up, there’s a reason I labeled them “stories” (certainly not something you can confirm through the church) – most of the stories come up as “secret knowledge” within the various esoteric/hermetic/gnostic sects and usually make reference to the Gospel of Mary Magdalene

    • possibilities include
      • most likely, Gospel of Mary, part of the Berlin Codex – somewhere between 100 and 150 CE maybe
      • less likely, Dialogue of the Saviour, part of the Nag Hammadi library – maybe 150 CE
    • two main councils for determining the New Testament (and remember they didn’t have carbon dating to determine authenticity)
    • we do know
      • the 12 disciples were sexist
      • Mary Magdalene was a single noble lady – a perfect target for misogynistic slander painting her as a prostitute
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