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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:
Jesus said, "The messengers and the prophets will come to you and give you what belongs to you. You, in turn, give them what you have, and say to yourselves, 'When will they come and take what belongs to them?'"
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.
Soon Elon will ban his Twitter account again.
edit: also,
No he won't. Elon loves him, and what the hell is Twitter?
It’ll always be twitter. Just like Facebook will always be Facebook.
You know, Twitter, the social media site later called X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.
Oh, right. It's Xwixxer now.
I think they mean ten
Why would you even share this ? Nobody cares about this guy's countless dumb statements.
Trump never fails to do something completely inappropriate for holidays. What a miserable person. Also hilarious considering how hard Elron has been trying to suck up to the fascist conservative wing.
The way he said "Russia/Ukraine" and then "Israel/Iran" makes it seem that he thinks Israel is in a war with Iran, which isn't totally wrong but also not correct at this point, thankfully.
If the GOP ever runs a Kardashian its fucking over for America.
That's all they need, a sufficiently charismatic reality tv star.
Well, I think the response to this could end up being "Electric car supporters wish Trump 'rots in hell' in Mastodon Christmas message" which could sound better here.