I’m at church a few times a week, and I think this is funny. Turnabout is fair play. And too many Christians have tried forcing ther symbolism down other people’s throats for too long.
Sorrrrrt of. It depends on whose rules you want to follow. The original Jews were polytheistic, though during the time of Jesus most had become monotheistic. In any case, the “you shall have no gods before me” is literally saying that Yahweh is the top god, not that he is the only god. There’s plenty of other gods in the old testament and Jesus even references some of them, like the Son of Man.
It’s pretty easy to argue that all Christians have lost their way when it comes to their polytheistic origins. Even if you don’t want to argue that, you just have to point to all the arguments in the early church about whether Jesus was a god or not, and if he was, was he the god or not to basically throw out any idea of what a proper Christian is.
(An aside, Jesus did not believe himself to be a god or in any way divine. He never made any such claims. He believed he was the King of the Jews, like David and Solomon, except that he was going to be the last one. He believed that within his lifetime the Judgment Day would come and God would decide who got to live in the next world, based on how good they were in this world. Jesus would become King and his disciples would help rule his kingdom in this next world.
There’s a lot more to the story of Jesus and it’s all very interesting but this whole comment was already mostly pointless rambling so I’m gonna stop here.)
Yeah, I have heard that early Judaism accepted polytheism as a given, maybe even something like pandeism, they just believed there was a single ultimate power.
It should only bother you if you’re a Christian Nationalist or so ignorant you don’t really know what the various “Satanist” organizations actually believe. Christians who know their church history understand what it is to be an illegal religion facing actual persecution and what it is to live alongside actual temples with temple prostitutes and animal sacrifices and the like.
I mean, if you were a properly religious Christian I can see why this might bother you a bit.
I’m at church a few times a week, and I think this is funny. Turnabout is fair play. And too many Christians have tried forcing ther symbolism down other people’s throats for too long.
If you’re a properly informed American, I can’t see how you’d be bothered by it at all.
Christians are the reason this is in the capital so blame yourself I guess? Lol
I’m an atheist, or I suppose agnostic in the strictest sense.
Sorrrrrt of. It depends on whose rules you want to follow. The original Jews were polytheistic, though during the time of Jesus most had become monotheistic. In any case, the “you shall have no gods before me” is literally saying that Yahweh is the top god, not that he is the only god. There’s plenty of other gods in the old testament and Jesus even references some of them, like the Son of Man.
It’s pretty easy to argue that all Christians have lost their way when it comes to their polytheistic origins. Even if you don’t want to argue that, you just have to point to all the arguments in the early church about whether Jesus was a god or not, and if he was, was he the god or not to basically throw out any idea of what a proper Christian is.
(An aside, Jesus did not believe himself to be a god or in any way divine. He never made any such claims. He believed he was the King of the Jews, like David and Solomon, except that he was going to be the last one. He believed that within his lifetime the Judgment Day would come and God would decide who got to live in the next world, based on how good they were in this world. Jesus would become King and his disciples would help rule his kingdom in this next world.
There’s a lot more to the story of Jesus and it’s all very interesting but this whole comment was already mostly pointless rambling so I’m gonna stop here.)
Yeah, I have heard that early Judaism accepted polytheism as a given, maybe even something like pandeism, they just believed there was a single ultimate power.
It should only bother you if you’re a Christian Nationalist or so ignorant you don’t really know what the various “Satanist” organizations actually believe. Christians who know their church history understand what it is to be an illegal religion facing actual persecution and what it is to live alongside actual temples with temple prostitutes and animal sacrifices and the like.
Religious stuff never bother me. They shouldn’t be bothered either, but they behave like children