• faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    Your film idea makes me think you’d enjoy the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a book in the apocrypha starring Mary teaching baby Jesus not to kill his classmates for being dumb kids.

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      3 days ago

      I just opened the wiki article to read next. That brief description sounds familiar. I might have read about that in Elaine Pagel’s book, The Gnostic Gospels.

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        3 days ago

        It’s straight up like a sitcom in parts. Probably for the best that it never made it into the canon bible though.