IIRC, the religion didn’t get anywhere is Palestine after Jesus supposedly died and it wasn’t until decades later that it picked up in and around Greece thanks to Paul, but no one was around that saw any of the events attributed to Jesus - it was all heresay.
I mean the bible is how many pages and how much of it actually takes place during Jesus’s life? And what is the timespan of the small part that does? Like a year? And the 4 gospels that talk about it are all rehashings of the same stories (more or less) and even contradict each other at times.
That’s a story with a lot of gaps and plot holes to base a belief system around - and that doesn’t even include all the baggage and hate that comes along with it.
People nowadays lose their mind and make death threats to the creators of stories that don’t fix or create new plot holes in canon. And we’re supposed to smile, nod, and happily accept one of the worst constructed stories ever just because some old white men that live the opposite way they tell us to live say so?
distantsounds@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I like to picture my Jesus as some kind desert hippie that some people embellished to tall tales proportions in order to give people living in that harsh environment some hope and meaning.
Bdtrngl@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I like to think of Jesus with like giant eagles wings and singing lead vocals for lynyrd skynyrd with like an Angel Band, and I’m in the front row, and I’m hammered drunk.
frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
This is what He wanted.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And he has a beard you could have gotten lost in if it hadn’t been wrapped around a tree