You either didn't read all of it. or you didn't understand it. Are there parts where things sound nice and kind and gentle? sure. But even Hitler occasionally advocated for social responsibility and communal welfare and I don't think anyone here would disagree on how fucking evil Hitler was. Don't just read the nice, lovey-dovey parts like "love your neighbor" and ignore the fact that Jesus literally had more to say about paying fucking taxes than slavery and saw people selling animals for sacrifice outside the temple and got pissed off despite slavery being- in my mind at least- far worse an institution and also a thing he'd have encountered near daily.
Lets start with an easy one: Mathew 28:18-20.
^18^And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ^19^ Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit ^20^ and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Theocratic Authoritarianism. Weee.
And what did jesus teach them? the law of Moses (Mathew 5:17-20:
^17^“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. ^18^ For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. ^19^ Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. ^20^ For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
So if you don't obey the shit he taught....you're not getting into heaven. Where do people who don't go to heaven go? Hell. Fire. eternal torture.
"well yeah, but they're awful people..." you might say... yeah. Awful people who... wear blended fabrics and eat pork or shellfish or, uh. stuff... I mean there's worse there. Like people who don't stone unruly children
the authoritarian nature of Jesus is self-apparent, and the consequences of ignoring anything are fucking psychotic... And lets be clear: the thing Jesus claimed to "fulfill" was the messianic prophecies
according to the messianic prophecies, jesus would have been expected to:
- Be a king in the Line of David (which is how the messiah restores the throne of david and such,)
- Bring all of the exiled diaspora back home. (didn't do that. details.)
- Restore the religious courts and adherence to Mosaic law*, end wickedness/sin/heresy,
- Restore services in the Temple (worship, sacrifices, etc.)
- Rebuild Jerusalem
*At the time of Jesus in the early first century, jews understood the Roman occupation in the context of the exilic period. which they understood to have been a punishment for breaking the mosaic covenant. After the exile is over, they're allowed to go back and such like. Then the romans come along, kick their ass in war, and oppress the shit out of everyone around there. There's a sort of angst against the Pharisees who taught adherence to something called the Oral Law, or the Tradition of the Elders, which is a sort of updated version of the "written" law. Some things were dropped (stoning children for disobedience was severely restricted), some things were added (ritual cleansing of hands before eating,). you can see some of that in Mark 7 when Jesus was beefing with Pharisees and their followers. Jesus and people of that bend see it as punishment for stepping away- because in their Iron Age understanding, the only reason their all-powerful god would allow that is if it was angry with them for something... and uh... go read Deuteronomy 28.
as far as my claims about the Messiah being a military leader... he's supposed to bring "security" to Israel... defeat their oppressors, and such like that only happens with a military campaign. for example, Zechariah 14. (i'm snipping the unimportant bits.)
^9^And the Lord will become king over all the earth; on that day the Lord will be one and his name one.
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^12^ This shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall rot in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths
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^14^ even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected: gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. ^15^And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever animals may be in those camps.
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^16^Then all who survive of the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Festival of Booths.
As for the rest of us being enslaved? yeah. That's because of how the ancient israelites were instructed- by god- to prosecute a war. (Deut 20, again, kinda reformating it.)
^10^“When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace. ^11^ If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you, then all the people in it shall serve you at forced labor. ^12^ But if it does not accept your terms of peace and makes war against you, then you shall besiege it, ^13^ and when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword. ^14^ You may, however, take as your plunder the women, the children, livestock, and everything else in the town, all its spoil. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.
^15^Thus you shall treat all the towns that are very far from you, which are not towns of these nations here.
^16^ But as for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain alive. ^17^ Indeed, you shall annihilate them—the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—just as the Lord your God has commanded, ^18^ so that they may not teach you to do all the abhorrent things that they do for their gods and you thus sin against the Lord your God.
Is it really so surprising that christian nationalists (and Israelis,) are so cool with genocide? I mean. really. And I know, you're brain is probably hissing and screaming right now. something like "that was just for coming into the Promised land"... but there's also the Amalekites in 1 Samuel 15(centuries after the offense, by the way. which. uh. didn't actually happen.), the Midianites in Numbers 31, too. Part of it, is that this is just how war was conducted. Everybody, not just the Israelites, were genocidal assholes that would enslave entire populations.
And Jesus taught all of that.
Or more directly, are the words of Jesus, in mat 10:28: "Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell" not the the words of a psychotic fucker and a threat. Particularly as Jesus claimed to be that very person? "don't be afraid of them. Be afraid of me." totally pacifist.