Matthew 10:34-36
English Standard Version
Not Peace, but a Sword
34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.
It's in Revelations, which I guess counts as a sequel?
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God
I think if Jesus was the avatar of Judaism, he would have been funnier and not been the wet blanket portrayed in the NT. Not that Israeli Zionism is reflective of Judaism
for my 2 cents, i think that's understandable but also misses that america is the dominating imperialist force in a way that britain wasnt any where close to being in the same ballpark as dominant as the United States, who has largely united the west under NATO in a way that would be inconceivable to the powers of WW1, and thus we can't copy paste our analsysis from communists during WW1. In addition, Russia currently serves as a very important ally to the PRC, DPRK, and other countries in the global south struggling to overthrow US hegemony
So do you think that when Muslims decided that they shouldn't depict Mohammad in their art, it was actually a prescient warning about tacky AI art bullshit? They just wanted to avoid this nonsense in the future?
i think iconoclasm does genuinely emerge from an instinct that shitass art of holy thing would be bad, but one didn't need AI to reach the conclusion art can be cringe
Yeah, it's probably far more likely they saw all the weird ideas Christians had about depicting the baby Jesus with an adult's face and just decided to opt out.
Don't you dare insult minature grown man baby Jesus! I'll have you know the Jesus Homonculus is the only canonical way to portray Infant Jesus and anyone who disagrees is a heretic.
In ancient times, if you were conquered by a foreign army, your statues and graven images could just be re-labelled as their God(s), whereas if you had an iconoclastic tradition based in the written word, it was much harder to destroy your traditions.
Depictions of Jesus aren’t really encouraged by Christianity either, technically. Catholics will claim they only use it to “aid” their worship lol. But tell them you don’t want any drawings or figures of Jesus or other biblical things in your home because you’re a traditionalist and watch them call you disrespectful
Well, since most Zionists are Christian and the religious basis of Zionism is an evangelical reading of the new testament, this actually is pretty on the nose.