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[-] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 19 points 1 year ago

It's incredible what lengths people will go to experience a short high of moral superiority.

Organized religion does this daily on a grand scale. The Golden Rule has been superceded by anger, fear, hate, and doubt.

I'm obviously generalizing but history shows again and again that religion no longer favors the meek and honest - it's all about how much money the church can grab.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

Well, yeah... Jesus was super based. But then Constantine saw the writing on the wall, and rebranded the Roman belief system with a Jesus themed naming scheme before his armies started to understand the full scope of Jesus's teachings, which were a radical third path way of life that made followers useless to Rome and impossible to control

And remember how Rome collapsed, then the church turned into a soft empire for like a thousand years? Remember how they stood above the kings of Europe, dictating who could rule what, in what one might call an empire? Maybe something like the holy Roman empire?

Anyways, I could rant about this for ages, but tldr: Jesus was based, his name was stolen to create a new Roman religion that is in most ways the exact opposite of what he preached

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

The church has never favored the meed and honest. Every power structure is prone to corruption by self serving individuals.

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago

I feel it's important to note that there are good churches out there if you use your common sense to discern if your pastor is legit, like the Bible says to.

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