• cmbabul@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      And several books that originally made up the Christian cannon were omitted because their message was profoundly anti authority/centralization and much more focused on the divine inside oneself and bringing it out. No hell and no judgement, we are all an aspect of god, and while I’m not a Christian of any variety anymore I find that’s a much more reasonable teleological explanation for our existence than the “live and believe exactly this way or you will go to hell” philosophy of modern day Christianity

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        Or in some cases, just plain fucked up. Gnostic Jesus is like if in the middle of Empire Strikes Back on Hoth, Han comes around the corner and sees Luke ass fucking an Ewok. Han asks why he’s ass fucking an Ewok when they’re not even in this movie, much less on Hoth, and Luke says “shut up, Han, I’m busy ass fucking an Ewok”.

        That’s what Gnostic Jesus is like.