Idk the message there is actually pretty good. If they follow the teachings of their prophet, then they’d leave us the hell alone.
The message isn’t bad, but the image is bizarre in a lot of ways. Like I get that Jesus washed people’s feet… but why is this happening in the middle of the hallway in a high school? Why is she just dumping the water out on the floor instead of into a tub or basin? There’s a lot of AI generated logic here…
It’s meant to be clickbait. You stop and remark on how silly it is, then you notice the message of not being a dick, and then things that make you go hmm. Something like that lol
And why is she sitting on a skateboard?
short colored hair skateboard = "even your enemies"
perfect blonde darling = "jesus girl"
Women can't do anything around you people.
It’s wild the things people justify based on one man getting nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other.
Somewhere in Rickmansworth, there's a girl sitting in a cafe who's just realized what's been going wrong all this time.
A lot of things in Christianity are very good, they've just been co- opted by right wing conservatives for 2000 years who say one thing and then do the opposite.
Exactly this. Jesus was a pretty cool dude. Organised Christianity though, not so much.
Paul was kind of a piece of shit and that's where a lot of the stuff comes from.
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mahatma Gandhi
Sorta.
The hegetsus ad campaign made it very clear who was "Christian" and who was "other". If you were having your feet washed you were: immigrant/LGBT/alternative/brown. If you were washing feet you were a WASP.
Part of that is their target audience is WASPs. Inasmuch as they're able to deradicalize WASPs that's a good thing... But they're further entrenching a narrative of white Christian saviors here to serve the poor dumb "other", which is toxic.
It seems like it is meant to show though the people around her do not follow her faith, that she still treats them with kindness. I don’t care if Christian’s think of me as an “other”. I only care that they keep that to themselves and show kindness. We’re all hypocrites in some way or another anyway.
Well they are following their prophet. He wanted them to follow the word of the god of the Old Testament. He was just a PR man for a religion that continued to push slavery, misogyny, hate for pretty much anyone who didn't follow along with their religion.
No where in their good book does this Jesus fella ever disband any of that horrible shit the god did years before, and Christians throughout history and up to today continue to push that horrible worldview.
He also liked washing the feet of the prostitutes, Jesus was a kinky bitch.
Weird question. When Jehovah witnesses or Mormons knock on my door, when I ask them to do this, is it creepy?
What if I lock eyes while they wash?
What if I quietly moan every few seconds?
But like, it's for Jesus though.
Ex-JW here; they wouldn't do it. Jesus needed to do it to show a metaphor or something, but as he is the better model blah blah, no need to copy exactly.
Please tell us when you've tried it.
If you honestly believe that Jesus was a good guy, please read the Bible.
I'm so tired of people claiming Jesus was a good guy Jesus was this and that. He's a character that pretended to be a prophet.
Imagine somone came to you today telling you he's talking to God. Do you A listen to him or B move to the other side of the street because he's a lunatic. So why would you believe it based on stories written down by anonymous sources decades after the proposed events?
Most of the shit in the Bible is made up, including stories about Jesus. You hoping Christians would only listen to the nice parts of the Bible is the equivalent of mother fuckers trying to skate uphil.
You cannot combat lies with your preferred lies. The only way to combat lies is the truth.
And the truth is that we almost have no idea what Jesus said or did. We have hearsay accounts decades after his death with conflicting stories and straight up magic, curses and enchantments.
He was a mythological character who in all likelihood did not exist at all.
Discussing the different literary incarnations of a character can be constructive and instructive for understanding the people that create these myths and for whom the myths resonate.
It's worth considering that the things people tend to highlight about jesus's behavior are the things that we would today consider good and righteous rather then the petty bitch stuff he is also known for.
I'd like to encourage people to care about the poor, contempt the wealthy, shun the violent, pity the misanthrope, help downtrodden, comfort the suffering, and open their arms to embrace humanity.
Since the whole story is made up in the first place perhaps we get to choose the parts of it that we think need to survive. The myth doesn't need to be real for compassion to be worth investing with faith.
The parts of the Bible that talk about Jesus were written after he died. I don't think there's any evidence that Jesus considered himself a profit. He called himself the son of God, but all Christians call God "our father," pray to "him," and "listen" for "messages," so I don't think you should read into it too much. It was his apostles who promoted him as a diety.
If your only evidence that Jesus was a bad person is that he either didn't exist or was delusional, I don't think you have any evidence that he was a bad person.
Real or fake, delusional or not, the actions he's said to have taken and the messages he's said to have said are indisputably good.
he get sus 😳
Wonder why the "unclean" person looks "different" and the one washing their feet is a heteronormal white person. These people always tell on themselves.
That's the whole point of the poster, how can people not understand that?
Also, this is not cringe. It provides a much needed counterview from the increasing amount of religious hate groups in the US, which is something tha US desperately needs if they don't want to end up like Afghanistan.
I mean, it’s a positive message in that sense, no? In spirit, anyway. They’r trying to say those “different” people deserve compassion. I’m all for more Christians acting as if they believed in Christian teaching, yknow?
i always thought the foot washing thing was creepy and gross
i suspect jesus (if indeed there even ever was an actual specific dude matching his description) had a foot fetish
Through a modern lens yeah the footwashing thing seems weird, but 2,000 years ago when sandals were the common footwear its a fair bit different.
I always understood washing feet to mean putting yourself into a lower position to teach yourself or show humbleness.
Sort of similar to how some Indian cultures people prostrate and touch the feet of elders to show respect.
he get sus 😳
Jesus apparently didn't teach them to wash their feet in a normal way. Just pouring the water all over the floor? Pretty sure even in biblical times they knew how to use a basin.
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