#christianity
i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake
fabulous
i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.
The idea that “idle hands are the devils tools” is so wild to me, because like it implies that if medieval people had even a second to think they would immediately abandon god and turn to sin, and everyone knew this, and it was so common they had a saying about it. Still used and relevant today
christian forgiveness is used to control and shame victims into renouncing all claim to justice and restitution. it is a facade of equanimity that people are forced into so that everyone else can pretend nothing happened, that nothing must be changed, that there is nothing wrong, that there are no faults or threats except that of the victim against the aggressor, and that threat is truly the only and greatest concern. this is how they justify never taking action to prevent known threats or right any wrongs. only the victim is the real threat.
it is for enforcing the status quo. to deny that anything wrong took place, or that anything else needs to happen before everything is corrected and made right and thus forgettable.
something about mary magdalene not recognising jesus until he calls her by her name makes me crazy i dont even know how to put it into words. its as if in that moment mary remembers all the times jesus has asked her for advice or told her a joke or simply greeted her using that same name and tone and stops weeping because she knows that voice ! she has heard it mutter her name countless of times ! how could she forget !
like she recognises him instantly after he says her name! its all it takes to convince her that hes in front of her and alive again!