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no but he was when he told people to pay their taxes and be good slaves. Think about it this way if a liberal journalist for example wrote an article exposing some of the extreme excesses of capitalism and got assassinated for it does that make them anti capitalist even if they generally support it?

But the way i see it it doesnt matter, your argument is just kinda irrelevant to me, the fact that his words and actions can support a pro empire and pro slavery view at all is enough because that is what it has been used to support. For example if a right wing politician cultivated and empowered and dog whittled to a following of people who some minority and this resulted in hate crimes i dont care if their official stance is that hate crimes are bad and that whichever group their following targets is great, the actual result of his actions and words are what matters and that goes double for a figure like jesus who if there is any truth to his existence it most have been very different from what the stories if for nothing else because many of the stories are contradictory or magical, the man simply is what people have made of him, and people have made him a symbol of empire and capitalism, i mean christmas IS pure consumerism.

Edit: ok I think you're proving my point, that verse is Ephesians 6:5, which is a letter written by Paul the Apostle (note that this guy is a ex-Pharisee Roman-turned Christian, who has many reasons to co-opt his message)

Here's an actual verse from Jesus

In Luke 4:18-19, Jesus quotes Isaiah in his mission statement: "He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free."

Now, frankly, both Jesus and Paul did use language of slave-master relationship, but it doesn't necessitate that to earthly masters, at least in Jesus' case (as he was a rebel and troublemaker to the local Roman-collaborator Pharisee order) , but merely to God

In fact, I'd prefer this interpretation of Christ, as a culmination to Jewish liberatory practices against debt

Nathan: I just pulled up the full text from Leviticus Chapter 25, verse 10: “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you” (with reference to the Jewish word for the periodic debt forgivenesses). And then the last line, “you shall return every man unto his possession, and you shall return every man unto his family.” So that’s interesting. So with the mention of Leviticus Chapter 25—this is really the part of your whole rap, sir, that I just find to be absolutely electrifying—could you describe to us how Jesus fits into this situation as the culmination of Jewish prophecy, as a product of Jewish tradition, and describe Jesus’ role in all this, as described in Luke Chapter 4?

You can read more from Michael Hudson's article

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