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    [–]Vulptex[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    He's not dead. And while his followers didn't start an uprising against the social order, they didn't exactly respect slavery, or racism (specifically Jew vs. Greek discrimination).

    Academic scholars say that the Judaizing church of James and the Ebionites is the original Christianity, and that Paul is a heretic. But James along with most of Jesus's family was an enemy of his. That he later converted is an assumption. It's quite possible that the Galatians James isn't the same James, or that James tried to infiltrate Christianity with Pharisee bullshit as the Marcionites claimed. Peter wasn't part of his church either, he was more likely with Paul in fact. Notice that he's mentioned as being with Paul, and then stops eating with the gentiles after James shows up. Maybe susceptible to peer pressure, but he seems like part of Paul's movement, not James's. Furthermore, I discovered evidence that all mentions of Peter in Galatians are later interpolations. Codex Alexandrinus doesn't include him among the "pillars" at all, and the others are inconsistent with his location in the list and which name they call him (Chephas or Peter). The incident in Antioch where Peter stops eating with gentiles has several stylistic oddities, and the following text fits at least as well with the previous paragraph.

    Personally I'm skeptical about how many of the other apostles are historical people. Judas's full Hebrew name is probably "Judah Cityman". He's the one who betrayed Jesus. To me that certainly looks like an allegory for the masses of Judah, who did exactly that. "Matthew" means "gift of Yahweh", specifically a sacrificial gift. A fitting pen name for a gospel author. Surely these all can't be coincidences. But everyone is too afraid from the church's threats about burning for all eternity that no one is willing to scratch the surface. And you have to dig deep to find the intended message. Academia also for some reason seldom questions proto-orthodoxy.

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      [–]Vulptex[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      Your insults are not a valid counterargument to "the rest of my kikery".