Remember that time Jesus said, “If you don’t work, you don’t eat?” Or when he condemned gay people? That’s in the New Testament, right? Or when Jesus gave a list of all the people who can never get to heaven? And when Jesus taught women to be silent, and submit to their husbands? Many of our friends, neighbors, coworkers, and loved ones clearly remember Jesus saying those exact words in the Bible, somewheres. Alas, Jesus said none of these things. It was all Paul, founder of modern Christianity; the church’s first spin doctor, and the guy who right wingers quote alarmingly more often than
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