Newly-elected Speaker Mike Johnson gave Americans a glimpse of his "worldview" on Thursday night while fielding a question about homophobic remarks he made.
And several books that originally made up the Christian cannon were omitted because their message was profoundly anti authority/centralization and much more focused on the divine inside oneself and bringing it out. No hell and no judgement, we are all an aspect of god, and while I’m not a Christian of any variety anymore I find that’s a much more reasonable teleological explanation for our existence than the “live and believe exactly this way or you will go to hell” philosophy of modern day Christianity
Nor should we forget that the basis for the Christian god originates in the polytheistic religion of the Canaanites. The Canaanite deity Yahweh, that eventually became known as the Abrahamic creator god, was merely a god of weather and war, rather than the supreme God. That was a different deity, ʼĒl, who eventually became conflated with Yahweh in the process of switching from polytheistic to monotheistic.
It is odd to me how many people claim to be guided by a 400+ year old European version of a 2000+ year old Middle-Eastern text.
A text that’s been edited and changed for political reasons since it existed
And several books that originally made up the Christian cannon were omitted because their message was profoundly anti authority/centralization and much more focused on the divine inside oneself and bringing it out. No hell and no judgement, we are all an aspect of god, and while I’m not a Christian of any variety anymore I find that’s a much more reasonable teleological explanation for our existence than the “live and believe exactly this way or you will go to hell” philosophy of modern day Christianity
Don’t forget that it may have plagiarized the story of Horus, which predated the Bible…
Nor should we forget that the basis for the Christian god originates in the polytheistic religion of the Canaanites. The Canaanite deity Yahweh, that eventually became known as the Abrahamic creator god, was merely a god of weather and war, rather than the supreme God. That was a different deity, ʼĒl, who eventually became conflated with Yahweh in the process of switching from polytheistic to monotheistic.