Especially during the times when most civilizations used word of mouth

I love the example of Hinduism. People mistake it for a pagan religion like the Greek and Roman religions

It's anything but that

I believe it can be said that Christianity makes for good policy, but bad politics.

I doubt it was ever meant as political advice

Mmm... I'd argue with you on that.

Like Islam was, for instance

The story of Jesus Christ was wrought with politics.

Commandments are just laws that come from a different place

The politics of the time.

@Schedrevka Are they laws, or morals?

The adoption of Catholicism was a political move.

They're literally what you're commanded to do. Hence the name.

The King James Bible came about from a political schism.

And then there's stuff like leviticus which is not only the rules but also the punishments, but there's some argument for that not being 'Christian'. Jesus was kind of inconsistent about whether he was there to replace the old laws or not

If you look at the Bible purely as a record of the life of Jesus, you're missing a lot of the background.

Or maybe the Bible is just inconsistent about what he said

Or, maybe, it was the root Church that interpreted it incorrectly.

i imagine the bible has been reinterpreted and rewritten enough that there isn't an intact original sentence in the whole thing

Catholicism got a bad read from the start.

Then there's the whole issue with the church deciding at different times what is and isn't canon.

I work on occasion with a Biblical Scholar.

Specifically, this person is a 'Messianic Jew'

That is to say, he follows Jewish tradition as Jesus himself did.

Y'all know that the Hebrew Aleph means head?

Ever wonder why this language lacks that dimension? The legend of symbols?

Y'know, the part of the map that tells you what each drawing means.

You mean Greek letters?

Naw those were basic af at first, all their meaning grew from numerical order implication

Excuse me, Latin alphabet.

That one incorporated some kind of coding, some precursor of cockney rhyming slang.

but still, numbers mainly.

That's what I'm saying, the Western one's flat out blank

This was not a bolt from an Ikea end table

Easy

it was not misplaced and shrugged about

Mormons weren’t right

Ancient Jews didn’t sail to America

My cat's breath smells like cat food?

> people not understanding that they're supposed to be in talk room 4

What's wrong with kids these days