Christianity is a man made religion shaped to control people in which you are supposed to “worship” a really high authority that cannot be questioned.
That's a good question
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brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 hours ago
Zron@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Are their non man made religions I should no about?
I feel like dogs would have a good religion. I wanna subscribe to that.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Christianity is just another weird death cult. I never understood why the Romans had an issue with him until I learned that Jesus was literally proselytizing that people were going to raise from the dead. I am not talking about the afterlife, he was saying that people are going to unalive and his kingdom would be on this earth with everyone who died coming back to life.
Fucking whacko to say the least and then sure enough his cult had him come back to life like he said everyone else would. Sooo yeah they were fucking crazy and so is everyone who thinks a ancient book contains all the answers. Hint: it doesn’t.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Of course he liked crosses! There was even that one cross he used to hang at.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
“You think if Jesus comes back he ever wants to see another fucking cross? Thats probably why he hasn’t come back yet. ‘Nope, they’re still wearing crosses.’ That’s like walking up to Jacky Onassis wearing a rifle on your lapel. ‘Just thinking about John, Jacky.’ finger guns
- Bill Hicks
Deleo@lemmings.world 9 hours ago
tpyo@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
bampop@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Jesus is lord.
Cross defeats Jesus.
Now cross is lord.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The real Christian message: Act like Jesus and we will crucify you too.
lath@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Ironically, the cross is a symbol of unjust suffering. Something which the more prominent wearers like to inflict on others.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
No, it represents how Jezus died for our sins, so that we can be free to sin as we please.
RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I can’t speak for everyone, but when I wear a cross it’s in reference to Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?”
To me the cross is symbolic of finding the courage to live our lives motivated by a radical love in order to overcome the fear of death and pain.
It’s like Goku once said while fighting to save the world “this is the power to go further beyond”
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Potential problem:
The Greek word that is, in basically every English translation, rendered as ‘cross’… does not actually specifically mean ‘cross’.
The word is stauros.
What it literally means is roughly ‘pole’ or ‘stake’, and was colloqiually used at the time to just refer to any configuration of wooden poles upon which one would be crucified… which, while yes, were often in the shape of a cross, they also often weren’t… maybe a T, or an X, or just a straight pole.
The English ‘crucify’ is built on the assumption that it was an actual cross. In greek, the verb for ‘crucify’ is stauroo, unconjugated; ‘to fasten to a stake or pole.’
… Its kind of like how ‘Matthew’ incorrectly translates the Hebrew word almah into the Greek word for ‘virgin’, when he quotes Isaiah 7:14 in Matthew 1:22-23, to say that Jesus’ birth fulfils prophecy.
Almah, in Hebrew, just means ‘young woman’… basically, of marriage age, so for the time, that would basically be… post-puberty, roughly 14, up to maybe early 20s.
It can mean ‘virgin’, but it does not specifically, necessarily mean ‘virgin’… in roughly the same way in English, right now, a ‘young woman’ could be a vrigin, is probably more likely to be a virgin than an old woman, generally speaking… but it absolutely does not categorically mean ‘virgin’.
slightperil@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
That’s definitely the intended meaning of wearing a cross, and a really powerful and important scripture.
It’s worth remembering though that ‘cross’ isn’t the word that Jesus said here but the Greek word recorded is stau·rosʹ which means execution or torture stake and the cross wasn’t a contemporary use for impailment by the Romans, primarily because a stake was a much more painful death than a cross.
The cross was a pagan idol for many centuries before Jesus death and was later rolled into the account of Jesus’ death by the later Christian Church to help with the conversion of those pagans.
otterpop@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Do you have any sources on the claim that it wasn’t a cross and was changed later for pagans? The scripture references “coming down” from the cross which to me would imply the one we typically think of.
Also from en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impalement,
"I see crosses there, not just of one kind but made differently by different [fabricators]; some individuals suspended their victims with heads inverted toward the ground; some drove a stake (stipes) through their excretory organs/genitals; others stretched out their [victims’] arms on a patibulum [cross bar]; I see racks, I see lashes … "
Sounds like Seneca, a figure from exactly this time period confirms the type of cross we think of.
capuccino@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Not a religious person here, but I think it’s a metaphor, where we all are carrying a cross, like jesus did, but smaller… and lighter…
Denjin@lemmings.world 3 hours ago
So not like Jesus at all then
capuccino@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
holly molly, you are not a person of metaphors, right?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
just another example of Christians cherry picking what they what to use from their religion and using it out of context to better serve their agendas.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It was inherited from Zoroastrianrism.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I have always thought that choosing the cross as the universal symbol of Christianity is the most twisted and sad thing in the world.
That is why I prefer the Ichthys. It represents Jesus’s high point, when he performed a miracle for the all the people. For me, it’s better to remember people at their best than at their worst.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Looks ancient egypt to me.
Shootingstarrz17@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Oh, I always thought it was because he’s a fisher of men.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It also means that! The fish and the loaves, the fisher of men, the fish that Jesus ate after his resurrection. It is a symbol with a very broad meaning.
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Referenced by my favorite Philip K Dick novel VALIS, the symbol of early Christianity: Fish cannot carry guns.
Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
The Vast Active Living Intelligent System… I read that 30 years ago as a teenager and didn’t really understand it then. He really hated Nixon though, even as a kid I could discern that much!
ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Not christian, but I would assume the cross is a reminder of Jesus dying for our sins.
Tilgare@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You would be correct. My church growing up did NOT use crosses, instead remembering his life and not his death. That always made more sense to me.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
Not hating on your church or anything, but isn’t his death the whole point? Like if he didn’t die in that manner and then theoretically come back, he’d just be some guy. There’d be no need for the religion. I feel like his death makes the whole thing come full circle. It’s not just about being good, it’s about then being willing to sacrifice for the good of everyone.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The Roman/Western imperialist mind can only worship pain and suffering?
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
the whole point of Christianity is that Jesus sacrificed himself to absolve humanity of the original sin. The cross represents the sacrifice.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Except earlier it said to have no idols. The cross is an idol. You can appreciate a sacrifice without using the tool that caused such sacrifice as a form of worship. If you rather jumped in front of you and died to a gun shot, he sacrificed his life to save you and you would be appreciative. Would you then wear a gun necklace around your neck to show you love your dad and the sacrifice he made for you? By sanctifying his murder weapon?
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 hour ago
LIES THEY USED DIE FISHE SYMBOL IN ITS EARLIER LIFESPAN!!!