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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I mean, he and his closest followers/the apostles really thought the world would be ending sometime in the next hundred years and that his resurrection was step one of the Jewish apocalypse (which would eventually include a physical kingdom of God on earth)

The messages of kindness, love, and redistribution of wealth are great, but they've kinda been muddied since I found out it was started as a doomsday cult.

That being said: be kind, love one another, and distribute your wealth anyway

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise.

— John 2:15–16

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

— Matthew 21:12–13

"Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.

— James 5:1-6

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Jesus would have been on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Jesus seems like a cool dude.

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

"Allow people to have autonomy. Your body, your choice!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Need a citation for that one chief, I'm pretty sure it says your body is a temple to be respected and cared for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't quoting other people.

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

Then why the quotation marks?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Because I've said that before

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What Jesus fails to appreciate is that it is the meek who are the problem!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I don't know if you get to call yourself the King of Kings and then complain about the Romans coming after you for being too meek.

Its a cute riff, but crucifixion tended to be reserved for high profile rebellions (the Spartacus Revolt, the Maccabees seizing Judea, your suspected Carthaginian spies and interlopers) not vague niceties.

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