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I'm not at all religious now, but I was raised Christian. There's some awful, awful shit in the Bible, but Jesus was such a chill dude. If everyone acted like Jesus, the world would be an awesome place. He was just a hippie who drank wine and hung out with his bros and made friends with prostitutes and outcasts and condemned the church leaders who abused their positions. According to legend he was the legit son of God and yet when he was asked to judge sinners he was like yo dudes that's not my place only my dad can do that I'm not worthy and neither are any of you, maybe instead of worrying about what other people are doing you should deal with your own issues, ok? Can you imagine if people actually lived like that? I'm not as familiar with other religions, but from what I know other major prophets were pretty chill, cool dudes too. If people actually followed the prophets of their religions instead of being assholes, religion would be great. Instead we have poor people being exploited, women and children being abused, and the entire system is fucked and corrupted because of human nature run amok.
100%. It's why (when I take a look at things from my bottom-up god POV, which is a key stumbling point here re:implementation) I think a Christian movement that interprets the fucked system behind such outcomes as 'Satanic' corruptions to be cast aside would be interesting and possibly pretty cool. Or it'd just continue the cycle of fucked up shit with new window dressing, idk.
Satanic in quotes 'cause there's lots you can unpack with that term/figure, but you know, popular broad strokes version - evil force trying to keep us from what we can be. It's really just us getting in our own way IMO.