This Sunday, I’d just like to remind everyone that it’s perfectly valid to not think Jesus was a great moral teacher.
In fact it’s perfectly valid to find him a manipulative, distasteful, and unlikable literary character
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Behavior associated with abusive New Religious Movements performed by Jesus in the gospels:
•claiming exclusive access to necessary spiritual knowledge
•preaching the imminent destruction of the world, and promising that the faithful and ONLY the faithful will be spared
•instructing the faithful to sell all their possessions and rely on the faith community for material support
•a culture of militant opposition to the world outside the faith community
•commanding the faithful that, if their family rejects joining the faith community and surrendering to its leader, to choose the faith community and the leader over their families
My favorite one is he instructs his disciples to go be annoying somewhere and, anticipating they'll get thrown out, he advises them to wipe their feet after because they don't even want their dirt.
He's such a petty drama queen.
