This post comes up every so often, and every time either I, or someone else, reminds people that one of the Bible’s biggest stories is that of Jesus washing Mary Magdalene’s feet. Mary Magdalene was a “street walker” at the time, which is old times speak for hooker, thus making him a feet guy
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Battle_Masker@lemmy.world 1 day ago
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He washed all the disciples feet ;)
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, washing feet was a common thing - they wore sandals or walked barefoot most of the time, it was a common hygiene practice. It was just a task for “submissive”-classed people - the wife would wash the husband’s feet, and so on.
Jesus was subverting social norms in multiple ways.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Agree he had an obsession with washing peoples feet. As I see it, as a evolved and enlightened human he was probably a pan sexual with a feet washing fetish
bstix@feddit.dk 1 day ago
There are claims that the translation of the bible is wrong on this though.
bycommonconsent.com/…/weird-ot-euphemisms-uncover….)
In short, feet might mean genitalia. I really have no opinion on it, but it makes a lot of sense. The purpose of even describing the submissive act of washing feet aligns well with the old Greek teacher and pupil relationships to present Jesus as a stand up guy who will go down on anybody, men or women, regardless of their status. He took your sins and such.
The message is the same anyway, so I suppose it has been whitewashed a bit throughout the years.
The reason why I want to believe it is that it would also explain why he was so popular that contemporary writers would bother writing anything about him.
Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You gotta be careful though, because the Bible basically called every woman that is featured in it a whore. A lot of this is actually more modern translation stuff, clerics of the dark ages loved adding whore to ever female description
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
spireghost@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
clerics of the dark ages loved adding whore to ever female description
Holy shit they were based in 500 AD?
frezik@midwest.social 1 day ago
There’s nothing that points to Mary Magdalene being a prostitute. She’s conflated with another character who was, but they aren’t directly connected.
zxqwas@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Was there not a passage about how he washed feet or something?
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well there are several stories in the Bible about Jesus riding an ass, but none about Jesus riding boobs. So I think it’s safe to say Jesus was an ass man.
Gork@lemm.ee 1 day ago
This logic is sound. Concur.
prowe45@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Granted, you’d have to find some way to harness together quite a few boobies in order for them to be able to pull anything much, since they’re not huge birds. But if you get enough of them, maybe you could fly.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
It’s a simple matter of weight ratios.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Are we taking about an African or European booby?
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 16 hours ago
This is aphobic. Asexuals are human too.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I honestly can say, but I know one thing for certain.
the man loved to get nailed.
DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Unsurprising, he was hung too.
Kitathalla@lemy.lol 18 hours ago
His best buddy was super hung. You can’t tell me the J-man didn’t know about his fellow J’s swinging.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
He did carry around some pretty large wood.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
More resigned to it. Has to close his eyes and think of England.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As the WORD of God he’s the source of Proverb and Song of Solomon so…
Dark am I, yet lovely, because I am darkened by the sun - Song of Solomon 1
so… tanned
works with eager hands… her arms are strong for her tasks - Proverbs 31
… toned forearms …
Like an apple[c] tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste - Song of Solomon 2
… not opposed to oblique references to pre-marital fellatio …
strengthen me with raisins
… … … nutrition aware(?) …
I am … a lily of the valley … My beloved … browses among the lilies
… not opposed to oblique references to pre-marital cunnilingus …
Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from the hills of Gilead. 2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone. 3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely - Song of Solomon 4
… mysterious eyes … flowing hair … no missing teeth (lol) … red lips …
Your breasts are like two fawns
… young(?) breasts …
You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water
… looks at camera …
Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread everywhere
… …
My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him. I arose to open for my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the bolt. - Song of Solomon 5
… (authoris of erotic lit take note, this is your lord and god speaking) …
I went down to the grove of nut trees to look at the new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the pomegranates were in bloom. - Song of Solomon
… pubescent? hey, could be worse …
Your graceful legs are like jewels - Song of Solomon 7
… legs guy! …
Your breasts are like two fawns
… breasts again! …
your breasts like clusters of fruit
… breasts mention number 3 …
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine
… #4 …
breasts … like towers - Song of Solomon 8
… #5 …
I think you can draw your own conclusions.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk
qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I want to commend for some sort of prize. I can’t upvote twice but I would if I could. Nice!
frezik@midwest.social 1 day ago
By my very fundamentalist upbringing, this was all supposedly a metaphor for God’s love of the nation of Israel. Which is exactly the sort of “reading between the lines” that they said you weren’t supposed to do.
It’s not that complicated. Solomon was horny, someone a long time ago decided his hornyness should be canon, and now biblical literalists have to deal with it and don’t know how.
no missing teeth (lol)
Harder than you think without modern dental care.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not that complicated. Solomon was horny, someone a long time ago decided his hornyness should be canon, and now biblical literalists have to deal with it and don’t know how.
hans landa: that’s a bingo
also, not even necessarily horny, just far far less prudish, all the sensory stuff associated with sex was just far more normal
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 day ago
I’m 51 and haven’t had any dental care as an adult. I still have all of my teeth, and no pain etc. They could use a cleaning but a lot is genetics and diet. Not all of my genetics are great though, I’ve had autoimmune issues since I was a kid.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from the hills of Gilead.
Guess that was considered beautiful, millennia ago.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from the hills of Gilead.
Guess that was considered beautiful, millennia ago.
This is probably the imagery… (except dark mountain goats)
…vecteezy.com/…/a-flock-of-sheep-and-goats-walk-i…
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone.
Cares for personal hygiene, i guess?
More likely good health and youth to be honest…
AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, in those times they didn’t really have dentists, so having all one’s pearly whites in a adulthood was not common.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
He was homosexual based on all his male buddies he liked to have dinner with. So, definitely an ass lover.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 22 hours ago
Cock.
He was a fisher of men, after all. 😏
kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Well, Christ came riding upon an ass, so I think this is an easy question to answer
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Long hair, glamorous face, skinny ripped body? Jesus was a twink.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
Not Korean Jesus. He’s swole af. Turns water into pre-workout.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Breasts, there’s a lot of art made of Christ being breastfed.
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 23 hours ago
TIL ace people aren’t “fully human”
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Likely not according to the church.
thebigslime@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Unless they’re clergy
Slovene@feddit.nl 23 hours ago
They’re cyborgs.
Opisek@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Arguably better
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
I’m pretyy sure Paul had the celibacy fetish and introduced the sex=bad element to the dogma. Some scholars even suggest that was his thing since the other gods were sex positive. (At least toward men getting laid.)
Post biblcal Christianity was informed, in part, by Hellenic philosophical traditions, which were apollonian in nature. Women’s sexuality was on the dionysian side.
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Bible doesn’t say anything about Jesus’ sexuality, let alone preferences. In fact what it does say could lead you to virtually any conclusion.
First, there is zero evidence that Mary was a prostitute as mentioned elsewhere. She was just a follower of Jesus. Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman tells about a fragment of a manuscript of an apocryphal gospel that says “Jesus loved Mary and used to kiss her on the…” and that’s where the fragment is broken off. Our dirty little imaginations could come up with anything to finish that sentence but the lost part probably says something stupid like “forehead.”
There was “the diciple that Jesus loved” who is once mentioned sleeping on Jesus’ busom. The diciple isn’t identified but the disciples were supposedly all men.
When he was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, a naked boy was seen running away.
So, we can draw any conclusion we want. The clear answer is probably boobs because he was really into missionary stuff.
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I second the boob analysis (ass myself). The whole having his feet washed and with their hair means he was probably looking down the shirt. An ass man would have them washing their own feet. Of course, it could be neither and just a foot fetish thing instead.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 day ago
The last sentence got me.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
tells about a fragment of a manuscript of an apocryphal gospel that says
Aren’t those Gnostic texts and therefore not Christian cannon?
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Probably. I don’t remember what that exact fragment came from. I was using apocryphal, maybe wrongly, to mean non-canonical
python@programming.dev 1 day ago
He seemed like the kind of guy who’d be into thighs tbh
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Definitely a member of the thighdeology sect
severalkittens@ani.social 1 day ago
We call it thighentology around these parts
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Boobs? Ass? Ew. He was clearly a dong man. That whole bit about parting the sea? He actually just whipped out his gigantic cock and created a bridge with it.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Pretty sure that was a different guy. Both had giant dongs they could part water with, but the Red Sea was definitely Moses.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I thought “parting the Sea” was a euphemism for spreading some bussy?
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Considering this is the middle ear were talking about, he’s be an ankle/feet man
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
That’s why he always wanted to wash them
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
He loves them both, since non should be excluded.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Could he not have been ace?
introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
He could be asexual who doesn’t experience sexual desire at all. I mean just possibility
I know asexuality is spectrum and not everyone experiences sexual desires same way.
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Assuming the Catholic you’re talking to recognizes asexuality exists. It’s funny that accepting asexuality is a way out of blasphemy here though.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Funnier that they demand their priests be celibate but don’t recognize asexuality. Like, what do they think is happening with priests who aren’t getting caught in sex scandals? Sure some of them probably just have more willpower, but I’m willing to bet money that many of them are just asexual and never had to think about it or identify that way because they were instead celibate for their faith.
Slovene@feddit.nl 23 hours ago
It doesn’t matter ‘cause it would be a miracle if he brought a lady home.
Because while Jesus was prayin’
Fuckin’ Craig was layin’
Every lady in the testament
You know what I’m sayin’
Retreaux@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
HES FUCKING CRAIG
craig christ
Kitathalla@lemy.lol 18 hours ago
I wouldn’t die for your sins,
but if you got a little sister then there’s room at this inn!
ininewcrow@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Most carpenters I’ve ever known were more boobs men
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s a tough question, to be sure. I mean, we can look through the book for hints about it here and there, but I think the best way is to look at the followers who are closest to him. That said… Pedophile. Jesus was definitely a pedophile.
Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I’m not criticizing your conclusion, I just want to know how you got there xD
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
Lust is sinful, and Jesus was without sin, though
bigschnitz@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Ergo he exploited the poophole loophole, thus our brother in Christ was (is?) an ass man.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The whole “camel through eye of a needle” allegory is a hidden clue for anal obsession /s
AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Having attraction preferences doesn’t mean you’re lustful.
kofe@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Depends on whom you’re asking, but lots of christians consider it a sin outside of marriage. Super healthy message to give young kids /s
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
You’ll figure out your attraction preferences through lust, though
lime@feddit.nu 13 hours ago
“lett de who is without sin cast the first stone” *picks up rock*
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Asexual people exist, dude.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Those are just the disguised lizard people.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
You got it slidely wrong. They secretly rule the world but not because they are lizards, that would be absurd, but because they are the only ones who have time to do so because they don’t think about sex all the time.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 day ago
Dont I wish, but no, don’t even get scales…
Veronicaella@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
What advice would you give to your younger self?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Homie travelled alone with twelve guys that he loved and they truly loved him back. He never made a pass at Mary Magdalene, and when Judas sold him out he sealed Jesus’s fate with a kiss.
Jesus was definitely an ass man.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dick. Jesus was gay.
Babybonita@lemmy.world 52 minutes ago
What is this question😭