I was driving through, I think Utah, a while back and I remember seeing a billboard ad for a local bank. They were heavily leaning into religious marketing (or maybe they were a “Christian Bank”) and I remember thinking “Y’all im pretty sure Jesus had major issues with using the lord’s name for business” lmao
Well that’s after the book was mistranslated through version after version.
Utah has an accurate translation that their prophet found by looking into his hat.
Q: WWJD?
A: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
The issue today is Jesus was washed away in mainstream media as a rebel against Rome. They didn’t want to sell that part of the story because, well, the Lord whipped and cursed them and they’re still doing it.
I always figured Jesus was trying to piss everyone off and martyr himself. He showed up to Roman controlled Jerusalem, during a pilgrimage month, got the local leaders riled up, has people worshipping him and calling him king, (don’t call yourself a king in a Roman province unless you wanna see what Romans do to Kings), his followers are lopping off ears, and disturbing the pax Romana. Really didn’t leave Roman authorities much choice but to please the locals by taking him out.
He’s sorta a Rasputin like character. Running around with prostitutes, healing the sick, great party tricks, rather hard to kill.
