Judging from the horrors that have been carried out in the name of Christianity over the last two thousand years, one wonders if when Jesus told Peter that he was the “rock” upon which he would build his church, he was referring to the Tarpeian Rock, which was a cliff used in Ancient Rome as an execution site, much like Golgotha.
It makes sense if you think about the fact that Christians today worship the cross, which was an execution device humans used to kill their God; whom we had to kill to pay off our debt; a debt we accrued as a species through our collective disobedience.
God told us not to eat an apple and was surprised when we disobeyed. God then told us not to kill, and knew we could be trusted to achieve forgiveness by murdering his only son. And this, according to Christians, was the best way God - a supremely intelligent being who with but a single thought created everything from nothing - could indirectly communicate his love and forgiveness for us, as clearly as was possible for him to do, given how defective he created us all to be.
We can see the degree of that defection, by the way, even just among Christians alone, since there are over 40,000 different interpretations of God's incredibly vague, ambiguous, and often contradictory message; a message that was so urgent to give humanity that an eternal God couldn't wait a mere 2 millenniums - which would be less than 2 milliseconds for an eternal God - until he could've simply podcasted his message to the whole world, since he clearly didn't like to write in anything but sand, and neither did his Apostles, who were all illiterate anyway.
And worse, after having written a “New Testament,” God commenced to create as many as 6000 new languages over the course of the next two millenniums, but decided to limit the number of those languages which can be written down to only 200 hundred. And this was as clear a way as the most intelligent being in the universe could figure out how to communicate his message to humanity. (That, and a church whose pope was canonized as a saint even though he was complicit in the rape of children.)
I don't know about you, but I would definitely listen to a podcast from God from the Tarpeian Rock.
It makes sense if you think about the fact that Christians today worship the cross, which was an execution device humans used to kill their God; whom we had to kill to pay off our debt; a debt we accrued as a species through our collective disobedience.
God told us not to eat an apple and was surprised when we disobeyed. God then told us not to kill, and knew we could be trusted to achieve forgiveness by murdering his only son. And this, according to Christians, was the best way God - a supremely intelligent being who with but a single thought created everything from nothing - could indirectly communicate his love and forgiveness for us, as clearly as was possible for him to do, given how defective he created us all to be.
We can see the degree of that defection, by the way, even just among Christians alone, since there are over 40,000 different interpretations of God's incredibly vague, ambiguous, and often contradictory message; a message that was so urgent to give humanity that an eternal God couldn't wait a mere 2 millenniums - which would be less than 2 milliseconds for an eternal God - until he could've simply podcasted his message to the whole world, since he clearly didn't like to write in anything but sand, and neither did his Apostles, who were all illiterate anyway.
And worse, after having written a “New Testament,” God commenced to create as many as 6000 new languages over the course of the next two millenniums, but decided to limit the number of those languages which can be written down to only 200 hundred. And this was as clear a way as the most intelligent being in the universe could figure out how to communicate his message to humanity. (That, and a church whose pope was canonized as a saint even though he was complicit in the rape of children.)
I don't know about you, but I would definitely listen to a podcast from God from the Tarpeian Rock.
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