Dismal theology-related tweet of the day

Actually, this is accurate; contemporary Christianity would not be recognized by Jesus.

The Jesus Movement of the 1st-Century was a resentment-fueled religious/political movement whose locus was the underclass. Augustine, with his notion of Original Sin, — y’all are no damn good and should just obey, obey, obey — put Christianity firmly on the side of society’s bosses against the underclass.

Neither Jesus nor any of the Apostles, by the way, ever heard of Original Sin. It originates with Paul’s epistles, who never met Jesus, and about whom a strong argument can be made that he was gay — in an era when that meant death (so he probably did have grave emotional problems).

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