it's just that stuff kinda trashed what chance i had at life and now is slowly killing me, so difficult to be not bitter. though it must be helpful to people sometimes also of course
@xue@Moon maths aren't consistent either, of course. there's no platonic world, and everyone has an own separate copy. they do at least have the pretence of trying to keep in sync and building carefully, though, while a big collection of stories covering thousands of years of people making stuff up and then revising and rewriting and modifying in a thousand different, incompatible directions has only revisionist popular translators
read the thing through a dozen times and not really interested in spending more time on it now when haven't got much left, though; sorry bringing it up
@xue@Moon it has no consistency on any given point. two incompatible creation stories, incompatible recountings of jesus' birth, god has a physical body that walks around in one place and not in another, "kill all your enemies" in one place, "turn your cheeks" in another, "gay is evil and should be killed", but it's also "completely normal and fine", we will all return to dust from whence we came, wander in she'ol forever, be taken up into heaven etc etc, and god is forgiving but you have to do good works, except all you have to do is believe, except if you don't pay the proper tithe then god will kill you just like that >:( , and we should all just enjoy life while we can, eating and drinking all our fill, because there's no hope in the face of god for puny mortals, except instead we should all live self-sacrificing and receive rewards after we're dead, and overindulging actually is a sin
@xue@Moon though john is different, being written later, and paul stuff goes off in some completely different direction, but the jesus message is fairly consistent:
- you must do good works - you must want to do them, not for legalese purposes
don't look to bible for consistency, though; of course can justify whatever if you're choosing