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WILL NOT.

That's down the hall. This is abuse.

Yawn, same shit every day.

I think the answer to Jesus tearing shit up in the temple steps versus his call to pacifism and showing not only tolerance towards evil but goodness towards it is quite easily resolved. In one way is the simplest and most likely answer: those were two different versions of Jesus written by two different people. The Bible is an anthology of different stories from different sects of Christianity which told their stories through their own divergent oral traditions. Even in the same book, it’s stories from many different groups of people who believed in different things from one another. The council of nicea simply put together the greatest hits from the largest sects of Christianity, all of whom had their differences regarding who Christ was and what he believed in. For one group, he was the kind of guy who’d flip over tables, for another, he was the kind of guy who’d never do such a thing, even though he strongly disapproved of their blasphemous practices. A symbol of enduring peace to one, a symbol of righteous justice to another. The second reasoning to be given also holds. Just as what goes for God does not go for man, what goes with regard to Christ does not go for his followers, he is given permission to rage at sinners, but his followers are forbidden from doing such a thing, they must instead abide by the words of Jesus. Do as I say, not as I do. Kind of like today, in a secular sense, the police can do what would otherwise be assault and kidnapping if done by us, because they have a higher authority that allows them to do this, the monopoly on the use of force. Christ was no ordinary man, he was the messiah and son of God, this he has moral license to do what is forbidden to most mortal men.

That article is such trash. It's about attacking the legitimacy of the gospels, using found memes as pretext.