#Christian texts

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

You shall not turn away the needy, but shall share everything with your brother, and shall not say that it is your own, for if you are sharers in the imperishable, how much more in the things which perish?

οὐκ ἀποστραφήσῃ τὸν ἐνδεόμενον, συγκοινωνήσεις δὲ πάντα τῷ ἀδελφῷ σοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐρεῖς ἴδια εἶναι· εἰ γὰρ ἐν τῷ ἀθανάτῳ κοινωνοί ἐστε, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ἐν τοῖς θνητοῖς;

— Didache or The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (Διδαχὴ Κυρίου διὰ τῶν δώδεκα ἀποστόλων τοῖς ἔθνεσιν) (ca 120-170 CE). The Didache is of equal antiquity with the earliest texts later assembled into the New Testament, of which early church fathers considered it a part. It provides an excellent glimpse into the thinking of the leaders of the early church, and it directly contradicts the "prosperity gospel" of modern American white Evangelicals on virtually every issue.

[Robert Scott Horton]

[existennialmemes]

Christmas Movie, but it's from the perspective of Jesus Christ, who sneaks back to Earth, and is immediately confused why everyone is celebrating his birthday in December.

He wanders into a Megachurch on accident, thinking it was a mini mall, and hears an evangelist (who lives in a mansion) taking the Lord's name in Vain to guilt donations out of people. Then he gets arrested for rushing the stage and beating that guy with a whip.

A significant chunk of the movie is just his elaborate escape from prison, wherein he starts a riot upon learning how cruelly the prisoners are treated by a blasphemous carceral system.

The movie ends with him using God Magic on the president of the US, and being formally declared the Anti Christ by the Catholic Church

[piosplayhouse]

Why does every drawing of Jesus being crucified make him so hairless and smooth like an oiled seal. Are you telling me he had time to shave his pussy before he got sentenced to death ? No fucking way . I know Judas went down on him au naturel the night before he got him arrested

[800db-cloud]

oohh i haven’t posted in a while… please take this sniperspy doodle dump as an apology

[sapphicscience]

people really don't want to acknowledge that you can be an atheist and your christmas celebrations be completely secular and it can still count as culturally christian

[godslove]

[geryone]

The Gleaming of the Blade, Christian J. Collier

[and-her-saints]

Remember those in prison.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in a Christian version of Roblox, you had to type a prayer along with your chat message or the message would display backwards.

[gratiae-mirabilia]

[girderednerve]

this post is old but i saw it going around again & it's driving me nuts. this is an extremely bad historical summary? parts of it are outright wrong & the framing is nonsensical, multiple people have chimed in to add "more" information but no one seems to have taken issue with the content of the original post. anyway it's somewhat strange to say that the church 'began forbidding' christians from participating in moneylending (pawnshops are also moneylenders; banking didn't really exist in europe until the latter middle ages), because the text of the bible itself treats loans as a form of charity which should not bear interest between community members. there are a bunch of patristic commentaries to this effect, but there are also a bunch of rabbinic commentaries to this effect! because it was a moral rule for both groups of people, and indeed for muslims! however, to lend money at any sort of scale, you need to charge interest to cover for the risk that you won't be paid back, so there's friction between practical exigency & ethical doctrine. it turns out that there was a centuries-long moral crisis about the expansion of a market economy & the development of finance, which cannot be usefully boiled down to the idea that money was 'unclean' (extremely vague term; also, if the church simply thought that, why were there so many lavish churches & well-heeled priests?). it is broadly true that medieval european jews were excluded, often violently, from fully participating in christian society & that several engaged in moneylending, using the out-group loophole to lend at interest to gentiles. however, a bunch of christians just lent money anyway; actually, most moneylenders in medieval christendom were christians, and most jews did other work. the idea that jews were substantially engaged in early finance was first an antisemitic myth, propagated by christians who were trying to resolve the moral & practical conflict of moneylending by displacing it; then it was a philosemitic myth, recuperated by late nineteenth century scholars who saw in jewish moneylenders evidence of a unique jewish contribution to the development of europe. but it never reflected the daily lives of most medieval jews & we can do better than this, guys, come on

[shinyjolteon]

"jesus turned water into wine" ok ya well i can turn water into soup. watch me.

[secondbeatsongs]

[800db-cloud]

And who let you outta your grave ?

[dominiqueramseyart]

Happy gay month cause you know, you gay and stuff Here go your gay balloon cause it's got all the colors, cause it's gay and I got skittles cause it got a rainbow on it. And I got you a cookie, it says BE WHO YOU ARRRRRRE FOR YOUR PRIIIIIIIIIIIAAADE