Greenleaf

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[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 85 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The original campus protest at Columbia has been successful beyond even what I thought was possible - and I was optimistic! Fuck the NYPD but I hope every student who got arrested and/or suspended can hold their head high and see how these protests are spreading and growing across the planet.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

idk she definitely gets off on thinking she’s the smartest person in the world, and whatever thoughts or opinions she has are automatically brilliant, because they came from her.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

With such savvy political instincts it’s truly unbelievable she lost to Trump.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Sincere answer:

Jesus was likely an apocalyptic preacher who was crucified by the Romans but developed a following in the course of his ministry. Shortly after his death (and maybe just before), his followers saw him as a man who had the “divine” about him, like a messenger from God. Eventually, his followers started treating him like he was still a man but who was adopted by God as his son. Then eventually (maybe early 2nd century?) you eventually had this notion of Jesus as actually God. They started with a man and kept heaping glory on him until they made him God.

So over the decades, you have all these contradictory texts about Jesus’ divine versus human nature. When you get to the 3rd and 4th centuries, eventually church leaders wanted to create one harmonized view of who Jesus was. But the the problem is your sacred texts all describe him in contradictory and mutually exclusive terms.

So that did they do? They came up with the doctrine of the trinity to try and address all these contradictory views into one doctrine. But the trinity fundamentally does not make sense because it tries to take these contradictory views and mash them into a whole.

A good book if you want to know more is Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Honestly it’s little things like this and Kristi Noem eating shit that make my day brighter.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I drink wine out of a 6 oz Ball jar and it works really great

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I am in my early 40s. The genocide of Gaza is probably the most evil thing the US has been directly involved in in my lifetime. One thing my ass.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And how Biden doesn’t actually support unions (the railroad workers).

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