• Alex@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    They made up their own story because they didn’t like the original with its reality of there being no afterlife + hell being a graveyard on earth for people mourning those they failed to respect, honor and love in life / heaven being a place on earth accessed via a mindset of what essentially boils down to communism - all of which is hard to exploit for power and profit without some switcheroo…

    And to answer the articles question: turning on fellow christians might have something to do with it.