I think it was on Monday, or maybe Tuesday that I realized something about what bro Jesus musta rapped 'bout.
For a while I had been puzzled at how it could even be possible for one person to redeem others.
One would introduce an empathetic connection with a lot of people, focusing on a specific viewpoint or feeling. Once entrained to it, the viewpoint or feeling could be gradually transformed into something different. Alternatively, it's probably possible to just maintain focus on this viewpoint or feeling so that it manifests as their own karma, and then to just live it through while remaining neutral about it.
Bro Jesus probably opted for the latter because the former has the downside that a lot of people would reject the transformation. It's probably more fruitful to drain collective karma of this particular viewpoint / feeling than to try and redirect it.
The selling of indulgences definitely misses this point. While at first it could have even been related - church sells indulgences and then the priests do the work on redemption somewhere behind the closed doors. But that's also not how it works because it's sincere compassion that's necessary for the empathy to work. Money tends to grow attachment which works against compassion and empathy.
It might also be interesting to note the +- a few days correlation to the Notre Dame incident. Also, I don't think Jesus ever told people to build churches in his honor and to visit them regularly. Or if he did, then it probably wasn't meant to be taken literally.
Disclaimer: I'm not religious, and if you are, please don't take any of this personally.
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