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[–] 25 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

Mathew 18:18 is the circuit breaker for those situations: whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven

AKA when in doubt, god defers to the Pope for some reason.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    The evolution seemed to be Old Testament = God of Israel, New Testament = God of the Jews and Gentiles, but they still clearly weren't thinking about people in distant lands like the Chinese or Mesoamericans.

    I think that any religions that have survived to the present day did so in part because they contained flexibilities like "defer to the Pope"

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    but they still clearly weren’t thinking about people in distant lands like the Chinese or Mesoamericans.

    It's almost like these books of supposed divine revelation could only have been informed by the experiences of the people who wrote them… 🤔

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