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Paul and his letters

AondeugAondeug
edited 2011-01-10 01:54:00 in Media
I have no idea what to label this...I'll just put it as media because WHY NOT.

Fuck you Paul. Fuck you and your letters. You made the New Testament hideously boring.

Also Revelation is overrated. HEAR ME HISTORY CHANNEL?!?

Comments

  • AondeugAondeug
    He at least got eaten by a whale which makes for a good dinner story.
  • KinkajouKinkajou
    Kamen Rider MADOKA
    Fun fact: Evangelicals seem to love Saint Paul and his epistles more than the gospels, as far as their quoting of Scripture is concerned. ;)
  • AondeugAondeug
    Evangelicals are the greatest evil known to man then. I must wipe them out in the name of interesting literature everywhere.
  • TheMightyAnonymTheMightyAnonym
    ~♥YES♥~! I *AM* a ~♥cupcake♥~! ^_^
    The Bible isn't supposed to be "interesting", last time I checked.

    The gospels are my favorite part of the Bible, by the by.

    ...and why do you hate Paul so much...?
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    "The Bible isn't supposed to be "interesting", last time I checked."

    Why not? It's fiction, isn't it? :D

    /shitpost
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    "Revelation is overrated."

    wtfamireading.jpg
  • DelusionalSunsetDelusionalSunset
    Battle Scowler
    Paul is quite verbose, makes him good quote fodder. Especially when you want to cherry pick for best ways to alienate folks.
  • PykretePykrete
    I maintain that the vast majority of problems Christians have nowadays can be summed up as "dammit Paul."

    Doesn't help that we're not even sure how many of the damn things he actually wrote and how many were just pushed by random second-century dudes during a power struggle.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    Jesus is Marx, Paul is Lenin, and Constantine was Stalin.

    I don't know who was Trotsky.
  • PykretePykrete
    edited 2011-01-10 16:05:47
    IIRC our current canon epistles are like half that we're pretty sure he wrote, a quarter that lexical analysis shows pretty thoroughly were written a good deal later but idiots insist them to be canonical anyway, and a quarter are up in the air.

    Some things like preventing the ordination of women are centered around ones we pretty much know to be false, so at least there's that.  Others like his general sex-is-evil attitude that got gleefully picked up for the next 2000 years are unfortunately rather everpresent in all of them.

    In any case, how much weight we should give them and their frequent contradictions with Jesus's general teachings is something that's been talked about for a very long time.
  • Super LazuliSuper Lazuli
    yea i make potions if ya know what i mean
    Old Testament is better.

    Trufaks
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon

    “I remember when I was young I found Dostoyevsky always boring but I heard
    about and basically went to the Grand Inquisitor in Karamazov Brothers. Even now
    I’m on the side of the Grand Inquisitor you know, which is why my hero is St
    Paul. He is totally disinterested in Christ as a person. You find almost none of
    this, Christ did that miracle, he did this, and this doesn’t bother St Paul.
    It’s only, Christ died, he arrives, and ok that was the event, now lets build
    the party and so on. Point two; he is external to the event. With the other
    apostles meeting, lets say in, 43, ten years after crucifixion, you can imagine
    then this nostalgic moment of having dinner, ‘do you remember how Christ asked
    me to pass him the salt’ ten years ago. None of that with St Paul, he is
    external, external, and this is why I’m with St Paul.”

  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    Paul... I'm not a fan.  He did write my favourite Bible passage (1 Corinthians 13), but he also claimed that nobody who was effeminate or gay would enter Heaven, that women should not speak in church and should never be allowed to be in charge, and that Christians and non-Christians could never coexist as equals.
  • PykretePykrete
    that women should not speak in church and should never be allowed to be in charge

    We're pretty sure he didn't write that particular one, actually.  Timothy is one of the ones we're almost positive was written in the second century.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    Still, canonically, Paul wrote it and it's part of the Bible.

    And either way, 1 Corinthians contains some things which I find morally abhorrent and which I've seen Christians flat out deny (like the part about gay and effeminate people not going to Heaven).
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    How do you set up a yellow quoteblock like that?

    Also, isn't Revelation the book that's filled with awesome crazy stuff?
  • Super LazuliSuper Lazuli
    yea i make potions if ya know what i mean
    Revelation is the one with personface locusts.
  • Super LazuliSuper Lazuli
    yea i make potions if ya know what i mean


    The Rapture is an invention of later tradition, yeahs.

    Revelation is pretty awesome. If I ever become a director, I will make a pricey and bizarre movie about it.

    /pipedream
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2011-01-10 17:44:47
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I already have a story in mind in which the protagonists defeat fifteen angels, including the angels of conception, birth, life, war, pestilence, famine, and death.

    I really enjoyed assigning Evangelion-starring angels to those roles, based on their appearances in Evangelion.

    Conception: Armisael (the double helix angel)
    Birth: Sandalphon (the larval stage thingy)
    Life: Tabrias (he appeared in human form)
    Death: Leliel (the eraser of existence)

    War: Zeruel (one of the strongest angels in terms of raw attack power)
    Pestilence: Iruel (the computer virus angel)
    Famine: Arael (the "denier"--as in, one who denies others of their hopes and dreams, and frustrates them)
    Death: Leliel (again, being the end of both sets of four angels)
  • LongfellowLongfellow
    La vie en rose
    GMH--
    tags.
  • TheMightyAnonymTheMightyAnonym
    ~♥YES♥~! I *AM* a ~♥cupcake♥~! ^_^
    In the end, I like the guideline KCK mentioned in the other fora.

    "Forget Christianity, try Jesus instead!"

    The ultimate focus of any follower is to be more Christlike, so I'm sticking with that.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2011-01-11 01:28:56
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    lol old testament?

    So, hilariously, one of my my mom's friends, who hosts a Bible study group, once confused Joseph of technicolor dreamcoat fame and Joseph of being Jesus's human dad fame.
  • TheMightyAnonymTheMightyAnonym
    ~♥YES♥~! I *AM* a ~♥cupcake♥~! ^_^
    Ooops.
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