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@ Jeff Swann
2025-06-14 20:51:37
At the core, Christianity is centered around a man who was tortured & killed by his govt for helping people & for telling the truth.
There are people who say things like "three nails & a cross saved the world" or "the death of Jesus saved the world" but I think those common sayings are basically a corruption of the message.
I think it's the recognition that the torture & murder of Jesus was the greatest sin in human history which we are supposed to remember when we see the cross. The idea being that we should never repeat the mistake.
A religion that might encourage people to protect Julian Assange, or any of the doctors who spoke out against the covid insanity, or anyone else who points to reality in ways that threaten authority is the sort of religion the world needs.
The main issue is that the masses always want to escape responsibility for having to tell the truth & power hungry people always want to subjugate people with comfortable lies. The focus on miracles & any sort of deification, rather than the recognition that he was mortal & did actually suffer & die, is actually destructive IMO.
Christian NPC: "Yeah, but he was God, who am I?"
Authoritarians: "Yeah, but he was God, who are you?"