As long as the clerics chose to include Revelations, it's fair for us to quote it.
Along with Snow White, Flatland & Gulliver's Travels?
@FrayedBear yes, but in particular I will use the crazy shit in Revelations to ridicule those people who believe every single word is true.
Revelations is Obviously the product of a massive drug problem.......pass it by.
Drugs are not necessary, unfortunately. Human beings are quite capable of coming up with violent delusions without chemical intoxication. The entire Christian bible is a violent delusion.The trouble is that we can't simply "pass it by" - not in the USA, where the Supreme Court is controlled by Christian Nationalist judges, and where at least one house of Congress will go to Christian Nationalist control in tomorrow's elections.
Sounds like an awful lot of effort when a scalpel through the jugular will take far less effort.
Yeah. It seems that Jesus was kind of a sadist who, like a James Bond villain, enjoys inflicting pain and death in flamboyantly strange ways.
Excerpts:
4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins.
5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless. (Christians? HAHAHAHAHAHA)
17 Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18 Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” 19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. 20 They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
Sorry, but you can blame psychedelics for the ugly evil hate-speech. These are pure psychopathic ramblings. And there can be no doubt this contributes to the hate that is the foundation of Christianity. Sick. Really sick.
They're easier to control when they are scared and you can threaten them with more violence.
I agree. The violence of the New Testament against those who refuse to obey is not the result of ingesting hallucinogenic mushrooms. It's the consequence of a social system that is determined to exert total control. Christian Nationalists are attempting to institute the same totalitarian religious power in the USA today.
I don't really care what a bronze age, writer on some kind of psychedelics said 2000 years ago.
What I care about are the Christian Nationalists alive today who are taking inspiration from these Bronze Age and Iron Age writers. Their actions now are founded on these ancient hatreds. I wish they weren't relevant. I wish they could simply be dismissed as just some weird old ramblings. They are much more than that.
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