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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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All we have are scriptures and texts that could have been a series of meme that built/improved from eachother but lost the common knowledge between the generations that it was fictional.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've always had this weird thought that religions sprout up when a grifter finds a fictional book buried somewhere that no ones heard off and builds a cult around it with themselves as the center piece.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that Scientology in a nutshell?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Based on my understanding of non-religiously biased history, the character of Jesus Christ is an amalgamation of many Jewish prophets who preached a generally similar message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

We know that this is from a series of texts that built on each other - many "facts" and feats attributed to Jesus were earlier attributed to Mithras and others.

The same "miracles" and other stuff get reused and applied to new prophets or supposed gods as they roll in.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Chuck norris could be the second coming of Jesus, and here you are, writing blasphemy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Isn't that how cats inserted themselves into human society?

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