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[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes, people are arguing it doesn't mean rich men can't enter heaven.

Who is? I've never seen that. I don't believe that at all. It's pretty clear what was meant, and this isn't the only place it's said.

There weren't TVs in the 11th century, so no televangelists. I know what you mean by this, but that's the problem. Language is weird. Terms come and go, and someone from the 11th century wouldn't know what that means, just as we don't know exactly what was said by people who wrote the Bible.

I don't even believe Jesus was a real person. We really don't have much evidence for that. I sure as hell don't trust the translation of the King James Bible, which isn't even the original Hebrew, as to what was said exactly. The meaning is cool, and there's no arguing what it means, but it could be referring to anything, and idioms come and go and we can only guess what they are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There weren't TVs in the 11th century, so no televangelists. I know what you mean by this, but that's the problem. Language is weird. Terms come and go, and someone from the 11th century wouldn't know what that means, just as we don't know exactly what was said by people who wrote the Bible.

You actually didn't know what they meant by this. They were saying that a televangelist, in the age of television, dug up this interpretation from the 11th century to argue, in the age of television, that the lesson was that it was challenging for the rich to get into heaven but not impossible.

But it does serve the more fundamental point that language is complicated and prone to misinterpretation. And that people will voice confidently incorrect opinions based their misunderstanding.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

There's nothing that irritates me more than when people misinterpret me not because of vague language, but due to poor reading comprehension. Except perhaps when people admire TV villains because of poor media literacy.