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Thanks Christians, you can shove that bible right up your collective asses.

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The letter J wasn't even invented until the year 1524AD, so as a logical person, I think it's all a load of horseshit written by people after the year 1524, not all that long in historical context to the invention of the printing press in 1440, to brainwash and control the masses as they gradually started teaching average people how to read.

Government + Vatican = control of the people...

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Jesus must be a myth because the English J was only invented in the 1500s" may well be the dumbest argument against the historical Jesus that anyone has ever made.

You are of course entirely free to doubt his divinity or the existence of God, but asseting that both the religion founded by his teachings and the 1s century rabbi were invented after Columbus's voyage is just bad history.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I never said Jesus never existed, but also I have no reason to believe he was any better or worse than any other innocent person murdered by the government of the time.

To obsess about one single person killed by corrupt government over 2000 years ago is to ignore the genocide going on today. ☹️

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 1 points 16 hours ago

The significance of Jesus is the movement he spawned. I'm not talking about the Catholic church as it was codified by the Romans a few centuries after his death, but about the movement of Jesus which spread far and wide directly after he died. This movement flourished not by the blade and the authority of oppressive regimes, but because it simply spoke deeply to people, especially the poor and disenfranchised. This kind of thing only happened a handful of times during history.

He was important because he created a blueprint for resistance of the oppressed, in a time where such resistance was a very hard sell because it went so contrary to the norms and cultures.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I share to a certain extent your skepticism towards the good book and religion as a whole. I don't think your letter j argument holds any water though. The first uses of the letter j were as i's to make them more legible in handwritten words. And it took time until scribes started using it as a separate letter. The sounds they meant to connote already existed. Julius Caesar was just Iulius Caesar. I agree with you that religion can be used as a tool to control the masses. Just don't make any logical leaps based on English spelling in particular, which makes no fucking sense to begin with.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 3 days ago

I mean, we still have INRI on most crosses right? There are plenty of other reasons to be critical of how Christianity was institutionalized and the Bible assembled but the whole letter J thing doesn't really hold any water.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago

My logic is simple..

STOP OBSESSING WITH ANCIENT HISTORY AND LOOK AT WHATS GOING ON TODAY, under the guise of religion...