My health has turned me into a hermit but on those rare days where I'm well enough to go do some menial chore like grocery shopping, I just soak it in as a wonderfully fun little experience. Farting around the grocery store marveling or making fun of the garish displays, chit chatting with the clerk
I figure as long as I don't have to worry about how to pay for my next meal, or how to keep a roof over my head, it's all a laugh. Frig it. Kurt was right.
As a Jew, I’ve always found the obsession with the 10 commandments among Christians to be weird. There are 613 commandments and I’ve been repeatedly told Jesus died so they didn’t have to follow them. Jesus’s entire message was that rules weren’t as important as compassion.
The very clear message of the gospels being A) worldly authority can be corrupt and their laws can be unjust B) wealth isolates you from god (and implicitly, the system that allows wealth is ungodly) and C) doing the right thing overrides ritualistic concerns including what sect you belong to
And the fact that modern conservative Christians tie themselves into knots ignoring this stuff and even claiming it's immoral to interpret the gospels that way is really something
Right - Jesus left Christians with one commandment: “Love one another.”
Funny* how often that is forgotten
*reader, it’s not funny, it’s actually quite sad
