Gospels
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Gospels is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 17, 2023 and August 08, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “And of course there’s the Gospels”; “The Gospels do feature some stories that could be seen as pro-slave morality”. It most often appears alongside Christianity, Europe, Friedrich Nietzsche.
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- Category: Publications
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 17, 2023
- Last seen: August 08, 2024
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- Christianity (2 shared issues)
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- Europe (2 shared issues)
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- Friedrich Nietzsche (2 shared issues)
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- God (2 shared issues)
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- Iliad (2 shared issues)
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- Jesus (2 shared issues)
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- Odyssey (2 shared issues)
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- Priam (2 shared issues)
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- Richard Hanania (2 shared issues)
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- slave morality (2 shared issues)
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- Socrates (2 shared issues)
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- 10240 (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
And of course there’s the Gospels. 1st century Judaea is wracked by conflict and revolutionary fervor. The Jews form a mob and murder an innocent person - Jesus. Then Jesus is deified as the Son of God. It’s the same story, except told from a perspective where Jesus is great and everyone was wrong to kill him.
The Gospels do feature some stories that could be seen as pro-slave morality, where Pharisees and Sadducees hold themselves as superior because they're better at following the social rules of the time. But Jesus' criticism of them isn't that trying to find rules on how to be good and follow them better is bad - it's that they've become so fixated on the literal rules that they've lost sight of the actual purpose of the rules: loving and caring for the people around them.
Meanwhile, the Gospels also feature many parables where people are unhappy with other people receiving good things that they felt weren't deserved. The message of these parables is that being bitter about other people's success can only hurt oneself - it is much healthier to celebrate other people's joy.