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ctoth04/23/20252 repliesview on HN

"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."

The rest of us can meet up every couple millennia around Alpha Centauri for an old-home week.


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janalsncm04/23/2025

That is a much darker tone that I’ve ever thought of that passage in.

On a slightly related note, I think a lot of people today don’t realize when Jesus talked about the “Kingdom of Heaven” many of his audience heard that as a real, physical kingdom which would overthrow Rome. I believe Jesus also believed this, which to me is why Jesus’ dying words (“My God, why have you forsaken me?”) is quite literally an admission that his political project had failed.

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