Man, okay, I am just a simple caveman secular Jew but I feel like I’ve been told that a lot of what makes the New Testament so weird, so _profoundly_ unearthly, is Jesus’ perverse-seeming insistence on universalism over “common-sense” in-group loyalties?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Christianity
None of this makes sense
It’s all bizarre ad hoc will to power shit
The textualism doesn’t make sense
The figurative readings don’t make sense
The millenarian readings don’t make sense
None of it has ever made any sense
(Jew interested in the early history of Christianity as well 🙋🏻♂️)
The Orthodox Church describes itself in full as the "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church."
And empathy is sinful now. I don't understand the mental gymnastics anymore.
That's probably not what Jesus intended, but that's how it shook out. In the process, Christian doctrine acquired alot of very weird material.