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Jesus is not a demigod. He is both fully god and fully human and any suggestion to the contrary is heresy. /nsrs
His execution was barbaric and horrifying. Easily the worst day of his lives. We like to put up realistic statues depicting that moment wherever we can.
It’s so very weird. Imagine if he’d been hanged and people casually walked around wearing nooses. Or drawn and quartered…
The only reason it doesn’t seem batshit insane is because we’ve normalised it.
And they are expecting him to return one day. I can't imagine he will be stoked to see all that iconography and be reminded of that awkward part. I'd have thought depictions of one of his sermons, or a carpentry tool, or just his name would have been better.
The execution is the whole point though. The Christian understanding of the Crucifixion isn't just "our leader got tortured and killed and that's sad," it goes way deeper than that. The cross represents the very moment that human sin was forgiven due to the sacrifice of Jesus as a perfect, sinless being. Christians believe that the sacrifice (death on the cross) was the entire purpose of God incarnating on Earth in the first place. It's not simply that God became a man to teach humans how to live, but rather the whole point was this moment of self/human sacrifice. So of Jesus was who Christians believe he was, he wouldn't find it awkward at all.
Still super weird that a deity would need to sacrifice himself to himself, to forgive his own creation's offspring for the actions of their ancestors who acted in the way he created it to (not knowing right from wrong ) when it ate the forbidden fruit said deity put in an easily accessible location...
Well, when you put it like that...
Good news, they’ll never have to find out. Just as nobody needs to worry about the return of other Mesopotamian gods or their judgement, Jesus isn’t coming back.
It’s a good thing, too, because if they actually read their scripture, Jesus wasn’t the hippie socialist they like to think he was. According to the book (if you don’t cherry pick it), he was just as vengeful as his father, and was fine with all the terrible and unjust things done by every other incarnation of himself.
Modern Christians would absolutely fall short of his judgement. Maybe the Amish would be okay. Maybe.
I think it was carnival row that did that with their messianic religion?
Was that a Netflix series? I remember wanting to watch it. Did it get cancelled prematurely?
Amazon I think?
Hey that only took a few centuries to iron out. Arianism swept through northern eurasia and kind of stayed rooted until some crusading and a mongol horde or two displaced it for good.
oh, So jesus was more like a quantum superimposition of god/mortal
rather than being half god half mortal
It's an important distinction. They are consuming simultaneously the flesh of a human being and an actual deity. That's much less crazy.