All we have are scriptures and texts that could have been a series of meme that built/improved from eachother but lost the common knowledge between the generations that it was fictional.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I mean, yeah…

    The Bible wasn’t some dude writing stuff down. It’s a bunch of dudes over centuries writing stuff down, and doesn’t include everything.

    It was commone with the pre-christian religions for myths to work like that, and as Christianity co-opted different parts of those earlier religions to make conversion easier, people.kept making up stories about Jesus or saints like people used to make up stories about Zeus or Hercules.

    If Jesus’s 20s weren’t conspicuously absent, it prob would have been pretty close to Chuck Norris. Just because those stories didn’t stick around, doesn’t mean they never existed.

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I think you have your logic backwards.

    When Chuck Norris stepped on the water it knew better than to let him sink.

    Chuck Norris yelled at the river and 700 fish came out to feed his friends.

    Chuck Norris was killed by crucifixion. It took him 3 days to kick Satan’s ass and break out of hell.

  • i_am_a_cardboard_box@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The first person to coin the word meme was Richard Dawkins in his book ‘the selfish gene’. He also postulates in the same chapter that religion is a particular form of a meme. So you’re one hundred percent correct!

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I figure it was an argument of “my legendary tribal chief was SOOO great, he…”

    Which led into a conversation of “Which super hero would win?”.

    My tribes legendary chief was so great, he made bread, wine, and fish, just when everyone needed it… He is so wonderful they tried to kill him, but he came back three days later, not even sick.

    It’s because he’s part super hero, you should hear about his dad. People were so loyal to his dad they’d almost sacrifice their own children to him. He was so great he’ll save us, you’ll see.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Jesus could come back from the dead, but could death come back from Chuck Norris?

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I rather think it’s plausible Jesus was a figurehead with the (already by then well established) messianic archetype applied to him who was hyped up by some Judeans as propaganda to incite their people to try to cast off their Roman rule. But then the notion really got out of hand some time after the original context was lost.

    Given the prior number of Jewish prophets and messiah claimants (not to mention Apollonius of Tyana who also readily leaps to mind) there were probably several attempts at this, but only one made it to this level of popularity.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Imagine the miracles today if he has to do it…turns water into 🍷 wine…yeah dude. That’s a sweet microbrew! Oh wait, it’s just cambucha but very fast!

  • emax_gomax@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve always had this weird thought that religions sprout up when a grifter finds a fictional book buried somewhere that no ones heard off and builds a cult around it with themselves as the center piece.

  • RattlerSix@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Hanina ben Dosa was a first century Jewish miracle worker from Galilee. He was one of many who supposedly did a lot of the same things as Jesus, miracle healings, casting out demons, made it rain, etc, but wasn’t an apocalyptic with a messianic complex.

    Anyway… there was a snake in town that had bit and hurt people. When he heard of it he went to the snakes hole and put his foot over it. The snake bit him and the snake died. The people came up with the first Chuck Norris meme. “Woe to anyone who is bitten by the snake, but woe to the snake that bites Hanina ben Dosa.”

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    The Chuck Norris meme isn’t an antique, it’s something we’re all ashamed of being part of after finding out he’s a crazy person.