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fu-si-un · 1 year ago

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i think that christianity (as presented in the text of the gospels, anyway) and i have irreconcilable differences after all. there are pieces that still resonate with me and maybe always will. but there are also pieces that are jarringly wrong to me. & i have no logical way of separating out the bad pieces from who jesus may have been and what he represents within christianity, when the gospels represent many of those pieces as things that he said.

#liberation theology is still beautiful to me #but the way that slavery* is characterized and utilized in various parables & sayings attributed jesus... does not mesh with that #*many translations would use the language of servanthood but my impression is that slavery may be more accurate #i am tempted to say that those sayings were misrepresentations of jesus whereas the pieces that resonate with me are who he really is #after all there are disagreements and contradictions between the gospels #& some of his parables are presented in different and contradictory ways by different writers #so it's not like i had seen the text as something without error for a very long time #but regardless of that... the impulse to align him with the parts i see as good but not with the parts i see as destructive #feels like it is born of my own bias #and my bias is not necessarily a bad thing. not when it's my conscience.#but i don't feel my conscience can tell me who he really was. that's just not something it can answer.

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