• CluckN@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Dude just needed a better PR team.

    “By the lords blessing washing your hands in holy water and soap allows Christ to deliver the baby”

    People would’ve seen the decrease in mortality and he could’ve gotten a selfie with the pope.

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      11 months ago

      But then he’d given The Imaginary Man undeserved credit, and who knows where medicine would be today? so I think it was all for the best

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        11 months ago

        Yeaaa religion set humanity back far enough as is, we need to attribute as little as possible to it

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      11 months ago

      Imagine if Jesus Christ himself was just a benevolent charlatan that tried to codify a good standard of conduct for all his followers (and was then sadly overinterpreted and used for the occasional hate-speech)