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Trump wishes electric car supporters 'rot in hell' in Truth Social Christmas message
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Since it's Christmas: Jesus wanted a lot of people to rot in hell too... but at least he was nice about it.
According to the church.
For example, in one of the works dismissed as heretical and eventually buried in a jar because even possessing it became a death sentence, the message is very different from the "give everything you have to God and church and await the end of the world" that was being thrown around by the early church:
There were groups that were universalist (i.e. everyone gets salvation as a participation prize), but there's not much money in that - why would you give the church what you have if what they are offering you is already rightfully yours?
Elsewhere this text has a parable that seems to liken the concept of salvation to a treasure buried in a field that we inherit, but don't realize it's there, so the field gets sold off to someone else who discovers the treasure and starts lending it out at interest (which is a bitingly apt commentary on the notion of tithing).
Miraculously this version of Jesus's theology ends up not being endorsed by the people who built St Peter's, despite the attitude being more in line with the earliest redactional layers of the canonical gospels too.
Please rot in hell (endearing)
That's why Trump doesn't have Jesus' way with words.
Trump:
Jesus:
See? They both say "everyone who doesn't believe what I believe rots in Hell." Jesus just put it better.
I'm sure if you wait 2000 more years, Trump will sound sane and coherent as well.
You don't even have to wait that long. The gospels were written decades after Jesus was supposedly executed. That means they were a totally inaccurate record of anything he ever did or said, and were almost certainly cleaned up to make him look better. So for all we know, he was as incoherent as Trump and Paul made a lot of edits.
I mean Paul definitely made some edits to the overall thesis, dude fucking sucked
OK...but there were many witnesses and writings of him spread all over the region. That's a lot of written accounts in many unknown places to edit.
That's nonsense. The first writings about Jesus that weren't in the Bible were Tacitus and Josephus almost a century later.
Why...?