• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    Oh yeah. Judaism at the time was basically, “God is a big mean motherfucker and if you don’t do what he wants, he won’t just punish you, he’ll punish your entire people collectively.”

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      1 day ago

      My headcanon is that the New Testament god was someone else who murdered the old god and usurped his followers, pretending to be him.