Great discussion in _Debt: The First 5000 Years_ ( David Graeber, Melville House, 2011) about the equivalence of money debt and sin.

So yeh, you're not far off.

You wouldn't want Jesus to die for nothing would you?
Nobody wants that on their conscience.

Also, he really only interrupted a long weekend for our sins. I suppose it was the Easter long weekend but still?

More seriously.
If you could be crucified knowing you would resurrect & save all humanity & be worshipped as a god for thousands of years, would you do it? I'd do it in a heartbeat.

John Safran did it for a comedy sketch.
Trigger warning.

youtu.be/e-3ypen637c?si=vH4GxL…

do something more original than the seven deadlies

Do sins from the old testament

Have a catfish and pork chop sandwich, etc

I've been enjoying reading your toots, but I gotta say, I don't agree with this.

Plenty of people are peeling off the blinders. They're learning to be decent humans and value humanity, not just being "a good Christian."

There were plenty of times in the past when I thought that abortion was the biggest issue of the day, the gravest injustice. I wasn't any less of a Christian then, just less of a human, less of a complete person.

@JoeHenzi
Heh! Very thoughtful!

I personally myself find most Christians baffling. But I appreciate your take on this.

It's honestly far more complex than even that.

You can be a great person in your interpersonal relationships, but be an absolute heel in your political world, because you utterly fail to see the repercussions of your ideological bent, or how the policies you support negatively affect so many people.

People fail time and time again to spot their own cognitive biases. Survivorship bias is huge among conservatives, as well as simply not understanding that people who look different than them will have a wildly different life experience, even if all other variables were replicated.

The real tragedy of the current situation is that people who are overall good can have a terrible effect on the world at large.

The beauty of the fediverse is that you have a lot of control over your experience.

Adding filters and unfollowing doomboosters has done a lot for my mental health.

From time to time I pass a sign that says "Jesus has your place in heaven" and I don't know what they're thinking but it's not a good look.

Not that I was planning on using it, but still.