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  • Oct 25, 2022

    the modern economic system is predicated on a financial practice that used to be literally considered satanic and anti-god.

    Usury (in the original sense of any interest) was denounced by religious leaders and philosophers in the ancient world, including Moses,7 Plato, Aristotle, Cato, Cicero, Seneca,8 Aquinas,9 Gautama Buddha10 and Muhammad.11

    "In many historical societies including ancient Christian, Jewish, and Islamic societies, usury meant the charging of interest of any kind, and was considered wrong, or was made illegal."

    Usury (charging interest on a loan) is the practice of making unethical or immoral monetary loans that unfairly enrich the lender. The term may be used in a moral sense—condemning taking advantage of others' misfortunes

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury

    Kings and aristocrats loaning to workers was normal but charging the poor an insane amount of interest is something relatively new in history that was introduced with modernity and industrialism (god is dead era)

    for the bulk of human history, charging interest on a loan was a sure way to piss off the peasants and workers and usually resulted in civil unrest.

    "Freedom," in the Bible, as in Mesopotamia, came to refer above all to release from the effects of debt. Over time, the history of the Jewish people itself came to be interpreted in this light: the liberation from bondage in Egypt was God's first, paradigmatic act of redemption; the historical tribulations of the Jews (defeat, conquest, exile) were seen as misfortunes that would eventually lead to a final redemption with the coming of the Messiah.

    This could only be accomplished, prophets such as Jeremiah warned them, after the Jewish people truly repented of their sins (carrying each other off into bondage, whoring after false gods, the violation of commandments).

    In this light, the adoption of the term by Christians is hardly surprising. Redemption was a release from one's burden of sin and guilt, and the end of history would be that moment when all slates are wiped clean and all debts finally lifted when a great blast from angelic trumpets will announce the final Jubilee.

    If so, "redemption" is no longer about buying something back. It's really more a matter of destroying the entire system of accounting. In many Middle Eastern cities, this was literally true: one of the common acts during debt cancelation was the ceremonial destruction of the tablets on which financial records had been kept, an act to be repeated, much less officially, in just about every major peasant revolt in history."

    from "Debt: the first 5000 years" by David Graeber

  • Oct 25, 2022

    In 1652, Patriarch Nikon (1605–1681; patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1652 to 1658) introduced a number of ritual and textual revisions with the aim of achieving uniformity between the practices of the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches. Nikon, having noticed discrepancies between Russian and Greek rites and texts, ordered an adjustment of the Russian rites to align with the Greek ones of his time. In doing so, according to the Old Believers, Nikon acted without adequate consultation with the clergy and without gathering a council.11 After the implementation of these revisions, the Church anathematized and suppressed—with the support of Muscovite state power—the prior liturgical rite itself, as well as those who were reluctant to pass to the revised rite.

    Those who maintained fidelity to the existing rite endured severe persecutions from the end of the 17th century until the beginning of the 20th century as "Schismatics" (Russian: раскольники, raskol'niki). They became known as "Old Believers" or "Old Ritualists". They continued to call themselves simply "Orthodox Christians".

  • Oct 25, 2022

    Google Hermes trismegustis

  • Oct 25, 2022
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    lil ufo

    There's no mention of Jesus's life during his teenage-early adult phase, it's like the Bible just ignored this period (which imo is very important to get to know who Jesus is).
    They skipped like 20 years and fast-forwarded when he's like 30 years old.

    There are theories about Jesus travelling to Japan, India, and even Britain during these years.

    He definitely went to India

    His spiritual beliefs were out of the norm for his culture at the time but very in line with Indian spirituality

  • lil ufo 🛸
    Oct 25, 2022
    Experiment626

    He definitely went to India

    His spiritual beliefs were out of the norm for his culture at the time but very in line with Indian spirituality

    probably Japan too, there's this christian village where it's supposedly buried
    smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-legend-of-jesus-in-japan-165354242