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Christian liberalism teaches people the important truth, that when you fail at something and are forced to stop, that’s actually a good thing because now you can’t be judged for doing the thing on an ongoing basis. Doing things will make you impure and risk losing heaven, so it’s best to just do nothing as much as possible. As your reward, in the afterlife, you get to happily do nothing forever in heaven; if you were to do things in heaven, that might ruin your mood and mess with eternal happiness, so it’s best to just do nothing as much as possible.
Just in case I didn’t layer it on thick enough: I do not actually believe this. Tis a joke. Though I do believe that Christian thought in the west acts something like this some of the time.
Ironically both:
Exist as passages in the bible.
The bible is a weird book cause it has stuff like that and then it also has stuff like incest.
I mean, they were barely out of the caves.
I remember there was some conflict between James and some random letter from Paul over which is more important, faith or works. Apparently, Martin Luther almost took James out the Bible over that or something else.
The churches took a bunch of books out.
told my mom about that one, she stopped talking to me about going to church and god afterward.
don’t touch my precious faith bubble heathen!
I maintain most of these people aren’t believers, it’s just some sort of social cohesion that requires playing their parts.
100%
I’m pretty sure that most of Paul’s letters are lost.
A bunch of old testament, then the gnostic gospels: Mary, Thomas, Judas, etc. Can’t say about Paul, I’ve not run across any, so far. But the Book of Adam and Eve was only discovered in the last handful of years, so who knows?