Duncan Trussell
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Blessed are the peacemakers.
You know, why are we putting, like, if we're doing Bible shit, let's do Sermon on the Mount.
It definitely is like if you like only because if we're if we're going to sort of look at like the like Christianity as the sort of like the the flower growing from that entire lineage, it does seem like there's just.
The idea was that Jesus comes around as a kind of like evolution of these principles, like also as a kind of like God is like recognizing like that the whole flood thing wasn't maybe the best move.
And it was also a kind of like it lays out a really revolutionary, I think, a really revolutionary way to live in the world, which is meeting violence with nonviolence.
But it does disrupt the whole cycle.
The cycle depends on, you know.
The fuck are you talking about?
It's fucking occupied city.
It's occupied by a great empire.
People are pissed off.
They want a revolution.
They want to fight back against the fucking Romans.
Here's this very charismatic person who can reach into a tomb and pull out dead people and curing people's blindness by spitting in his hand, rubbing mud in his hands and putting it on their fucking eyes, curing lepers.
And you're like, come on, baby.
All you got to do is tell us to fucking overthrow these Romans.
If you can raise the dead, I bet you can throw fireballs.