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crazybehind t1_j1nenhn wrote

Who cares?!

Seriously. Some second hand account of shit that maybe possibly happened 2,000 years ago and has no demonstrable reason why this is at all relevant to our lives.

Why is this worth attention at all? Let alone any attention from millions of people for thousands of years later. We need to move beyond this assumption that there is real meaning here.

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Capt_takh t1_j1nbl3g wrote

This is actually a brilliant way to dissect religion as a whole. Sure, the book has some good messages in it, but this? What’s this? Jesus, who is actually also God, is complaining about fruit seasonality which he apparently made himself? If we mere mortals can pick it apart, it’s probably because it was just written by some dudes back in the day and one of them didn’t like figs. Or maybe loved figs and wished they were always in season.

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nato2271 t1_j1mpg8x wrote

Maybe He was referring to the fact that Adam and Eve used the fig leaf to cover themselves when they disobeyed God and so what he was really condemning was the idea of man made religion that bears no good fruit…

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JayEll1969 t1_j1mo2ie wrote

"Its not fig season and this fig tree doesn't have figs on it, but I wanted figs so I'm going to curse the tree so that it will be barren, wither and die"

Not at all spitefull or self important. After all, if his dad created the tree then he also made the tree have ripe fruit during certain seasons and not others. Do you think JC had daddy issues?

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