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Religious Cringe

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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.

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  2. Material about religious bigots made by non-bigots is only allowed from Friday-Sunday EST. In an effort to keep this community on the topic of religious cringe and bigotry we have decide to limit stuff like atheist memes to only the weekends.

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[–] Rumbelows@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Did Jesus also commit adultery with a porn star, use campaign funds to hush it up and then lie about it?

Or does the analogy not carry that far?

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If you believe that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, then I think Jesus would have been cool with a porn star. That said, adultery and embezzlement/theft were things he was definitely not cool with.

PS: There is a Christian conspiracy theory that postulates that Mary Magdalene was Jesus' lover or a very important figure in the fight against the establishment, but because that lessened the mythology of Jesus and empowered women, she was edited to be a removed that Jesus rescues rather than a woman he admired.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's not a conspiracy theory. It's based off the lost gospels that were found in the Nag Hammadi Library [The Gnostics]. This theory might be from the Gospel of Mary but it might be another one.

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s from the Gospel of St. Thomas.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Right you are! Only drop the Saint. The Gnostics believed in self-actualization not in divine intervention.

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes but he’s typically referring to as St. Thomas or Doubting Thomas.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

By Catholics. The reformers don't believe in Sainthood.

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What does that have to do with anything? It’s meant as a clarification. Catholics don’t believe that the book was actually written by him either.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Because it's not called "The Gospel of Saint Thomas," it's "The Gospel of Thomas."

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He’s one and the same. Again, it’s for clarification. The book is supposedly written by the Thomas that was an apostle of Jesus.

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

From the wiki article: "Most modern scholars do not consider the Apostle Thomas the author of this document and the author remains unknown."

Unfortunately it doesn't look like that is very well accepted

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

This is surely meant in the same way that scholars don’t actually consider any of the gospels, including Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, to be written by the actual apostles they’re named after. All of them, including the Gospel of Thomas (don’t want to confuse the pedants around here!), are meant to be written as if coming directly from the apostles, hence why they’re named the way they are. Modern scholarship acknowledges that none of them can possibly be written by any of Jesus’ contemporaries but that doesn’t mean that most modern Christians know or care about that. They’re the Gospels of each of the people supposedly credited to them.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

I read “embezzlement” in your comment and for some reason, my brain shouted “enshizzlement” instead. Not sure what it’s trying to tell me.

[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

In orthodoxy they completely removed her

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Jesus was clapping prostitute ass cheeks tho

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Don't forget the foot fetish.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

wait a second what foot fetish

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You are assuming that when Jesus asked his followers to eat his flesh, he meant cannibalism.

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