I know it's a joke, but imagine depriving Yourself of Terry Pratchett for that reason.

How come when god bangs a teenager he’s the holiest almighty but when I do it I’m a terrible teacher?

It sort of explains why Conservatives are so into Christianity despite opposing everything Jesus taught. They just like that God raped a kid.

Men are quite simple.

There are 3 entities. The Father, which is the sum of all knowledge. The Holy Spirit, which is pure power. The Son, which represents emotion.

The Father has the master plan, how everything works and who decides when things don't work out.

The Holy Spirit, which is usually represented by a dove, is how shit gets done. Its power is what impregnated Mary and what give The Son his divinity. It's also what enacted the punishments as decreed by The Father.

The Son is the link to humanity. To feel compassion, empathy, forgiveness, mercy etc.

So The Father is the government, The Holy Spirit is the army and The Son is the civilian.

They're the same source, which is divinity, but they're separate individuals connected at the source. Now replace divinity with humanity and it's just a really roundabout way of say, we're all the same people, so stop killing each other ffs.

However, because men are simple, it all just whooshes over our heads almost constantly.

So yeah.

This is just what happens when you don't plan out your story and write yourself into a corner, and then the fanfic authors are left trying to make it make sense... and then eventually the fanfics get merged into canon.

For breaking rules he created, and knew they'd be broken since the moment he created them, because he's omniscient.

It's easier to follow the indoctrination and do as told. Much harder to have real convictions after weighing the proven evidence and use critical thinking. Easy to be a sheep in the flock and not have to think or actualize. The sad part is so much potential wasted by staying dualistic and small rather than advance to higher thinking and escape the lies. Truth really does set free from all that baggage and conditional belonging. That's not real acceptance or integrity to deny the truth of yourself and the cosmos, in this short time as conscious stardust.

Once you realize that Jesus was a doomsday cultist who believed heaven would be on Earth with everyone rising from the dead it starts making more sense. His cultists "resurrected" him to prove he was right and the real reason he was put to death was he was fucking bonkers.

The gods are petty and cruel, even to themselves.

Tolkien is such a shit author, like anyone remembers anything he wrote

Whoever wrote that must have been stoned

As was the style at the time

Women writing fiction: "this standard woman, with high cheekbones, green eyes like olives, ginger curls she spends no time caring for and it is constantly a mess all time (definitely not metaphor for the character's inner conflict). She's just a writer who received a letter from a mysterious family asking her to leave her life of friends and writers block. Because of her new england uprising she...

Idk if it's because I've listened (audiobooks) to a few women writers writing horror but every plot started melding together, and they're all using the same names too. How many Hattie's do you know irl?

@NickEast_IndieWriter @galacticwriters @bookstodon @writingbooks @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop See, there was an old story...Then came generations of "reply guys" and "fan fiction" rewrites.An obvious case of "Too many cooks".

@NickEast_IndieWriter @galacticwriters @bookstodon @writingbooks @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop RIGHT?!Fk why do ppl not get that its all super scammy?!

As a man who writes fiction and a former Christian, I concur with most of it. The Bible (and related Christian works) tend to be crap. The contradictions and tonal shifts are nuts, even within works said to be by one (human) author, can be jarring.

To have your protagonist MC sexually assault a teenage girl as part of their bigger plan, "for the greater good", is just garbage writing, especially when there's no consequences for such a heinous act.

Well technically that only applies to trinitarian sects but thanks for grouping all Christians together and proving my point in another argument. (Not criticising, I do it too, I'm told "nobody does" and my counter argument is "bro I've been alive a long time, everyfuckingbody does.")

Also Book of Esther, Book of Ruth.