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ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 6h

36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.
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~Jesus

⚔️Intolerence is the foundation.⚔️

ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 6h

Matthew 10:34-36
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34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

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ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 6h

Matthew 10:34-36
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34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 6h

3. Inter Caetera (1493) – Pope Alexander VI
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Granted Spain dominion over newly “discovered” lands west of a
demarcation line in the Atlantic, excluding lands already claimed by
Christian rulers.
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ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 6h

2. Romanus Pontifex (1455) – Pope Nicholas V
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Gave Portugal exclusive rights over territories along the
African coast and reaffirmed the legitimacy of enslaving non-Christians.

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ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 6h

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1. Dum Diversas (1452) – Pope Nicholas V
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Authorized Portugal to subjugate “Saracens (Muslims),
pagans, and other "enemies of Christ” and reduce them
to perpetual servitude.

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ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 6h

Together, these bulls formed the ideological and legal scaffolding
authorizing European colonialism, the seizure of Indigenous lands,
he dehumanization of non-Christian peoples, colonize, convert, and
claim sovereignty over non-Christian lands and people.

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ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 6h

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The "Doctrine of Discovery" is not a single document but rather
a legal and theological framework derived from a series of Papal Bulls.
(A decree issued by the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.)
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ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 7h

🙃
Letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, dated December 20, 1810.
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"I burn with impatience for the moment of Xtianity's dissolution, it has injured me."
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Source: "The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley", 2 vols., ed. Frederick L. Jones (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964)
page, 26
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ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 1d

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ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 2d

🗣️The list is long! 📜 Where to start? 😂 #Atheism #atheist #criticalthinking

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ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 3d

🚫🕍⛪️🕌 #Atheism #atheist #criticalthinking #thematrixisreal #deconstuction #sociology #history #religion

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ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 4d

#AlfredKorzybski

ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 4d

…✨ and so that’s why they borrowed these histories, they kind of, you know they used some of the truth and then they ✨ also added on the version of reality that they wanted so that the eventual followers of the religion would be pacifistic, pay their taxes. ✨

ÆzterX* @aezterx.bsky.social · 4d

🗣️The purpose of the gospels is on one level is to simply try to pacify the messianic movement which was militaristic⚔️ ✍️ #JosephAtwill 📙 “ #CaesarsMessiah ”