• blazera@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I love JC, but words mean definitive things

    I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent

    There are no alternative interpretations, only self delusions to protect yourself from bigger questions

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Religious texts are a choose your own adventure book, even for the fundamentalists that endorse the parts like that. All believers intentionally leave room for whatever they like.

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      2 months ago

      But that wasn’t Jesus; it was Paul. Paul wrote a lot of stuff that is exactly opposite of the quotes attributed to Jesus.