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What Would Jesus Do? (lemmy.world)
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"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."

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%205%3A1-6&version=NIV

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 55 points 6 months ago

In plaintext form, for your convenience:

Q: WWJD?
A: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Jesus: LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

Going to be crazy when the NYPD bomb Jesus's house and kill his family in a SWAT raid.

[-] merari42@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I hear he has a history of problems with the state. he was literally crucified.

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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Little known fact that Jesus was actually just three kids in a tunic

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 19 points 6 months ago

That's tritheism

[-] makyo@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

You haven't heard of the great five-in-one? Father, son, son, son, and holy spirit.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ah yes, the Holy Quinity.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 6 months ago

Good thing there's not six...

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 months ago

Stupid sexune deity...

[-] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

If I'm not mistaken, the original name in Aramaic translates to something like "Jesus Christman"

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Oily Josh

[-] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago

I look forward to your Ted Talk.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

The problem is- Jesus didn't chase the people behind the money changers out of the temple with a whip, it was the low-level workers he attacked. While talking about, as you quote, how luxurious their lives were.

Jesus was doing the Batman thing- beating up on low-level criminals while leaving the real people in charge behind the scenes around.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Turning Christians into anti-capitalists is a very easy thing - they were literally taught the logic of anti-capitalism from birth.

Yet the left prefers edgelord atheism because reasons.

[-] ganksy@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

Atheism is just something I wear. It mostly revolves around being rational. Using more bullshit because it's more effective kind of defeats the point of it all. I don't have a problem with speaking to someone in their own terms. Proselytizing atheism just falls on dead ears and I don't care what someone else believes as long as I don't have to live by it.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

It mostly revolves around being rational.

I have yet to meet a "rational" atheist. Or, at least, an atheist that's any more rational than a religious person.

Proselytizing atheism just falls on dead ears

Yeah... I wonder why.

[-] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 months ago

C'mon down here to the south and experience the wonderful world of preachers straight up preaching conspiracies instead of the Bible! And their followers eating that shit up!

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[-] EldritchFeminity 22 points 6 months ago

Who pissed in your Cheerios?

And that does not describe US Christianity. Most of the regressives haven't ever read the bible.

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[-] makyo@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Most Christians missed that part of scripture - they'd freak out if you told them Jesus was a communist

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 6 months ago

This also missed the parts that say "love thy neighbor" and that vengeance is God's domain alone ("Vengeance is mine.")

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

the left prefers edgelord atheism

Imagine thinking Sam Harris is a Leftist.

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[-] Tom_Hanx_Hail_Satan@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

Yet the left prefers edgelord atheism because reasons.<

This sentence just outed you as a 15 year old.

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[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I'm a Christian and I approve.

[-] menemen@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You might be interested in Liberation theology. In short, the US didn't like them and started quite the thing in El Salvador...

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I am aware of Liberation theology. I am also aware of how it was crushed - and the ones who did the crushing.

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Christians don't actually learn anything logical. They are brainwashed from a young age and trained to be obedient.

If they actually thought about what their book said, they wouldn't vote for a dude who is constantly stealing, committing adultery, and bearing false witness.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

They are brainwashed from a young age and trained to be obedient.

I could say that about a lot of things - nationalism, liberalism, capitalism, colonialism, white supremacism, individualism - yet I see lots of these supposedly "logical" atheists unquestioningly embracing those.

If they actually thought about what their book said,

Soooo... it's not the book then - is it?

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Right, every group has irrational people and some believe awful garbage. Now go get us a demographic breakdown with odds of being Christian compared to not religious for white supremacists, etc.

You said it yourself, the teachings from their literal god lean pretty far left, but they're not a core foundational group of leftists. That's because from childhood they are brainwashed and trained to believe contradictory delusions.

If they actually thought about their religion, or had any initiative of their own, they wouldn't need to be approached by leftists, they would be the leftists approaching others.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Atheism gains when people turn to science over faith, and seek to truly understand the world around them.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

your gold is corroded

Must not be real gold. Those scammy, money lending bastards...

[-] hark@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Banks do manipulate precious metals prices through fake supply numbers. It's virtual, though, so hard to imagine corrosion there. Just corruption.

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[-] sabin@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Lol no. If jesus was alive today he'd be telling you that poor people nowadays live exceptional lives and should be complacent in having their lives exploited. Jesus did not free slaves- he only cured them so they could keep providing capital to their masters.

[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Based and Christ-pilled

[-] MilitantVegan@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The scene in the temple is recently one of the central plot points of the new documentary, Christspiracy. The movie as a whole is a little over-sensationalized in framing their views as some kind of grand church cover-up. But some of their arguments about archeological evidence and scriptural translation differences make for interesting food for thought.

Basically they argue that the temple at that time was a big slaughterhouse, and that the "thieves" Jesus whipped could more accurately be translated as "murderers".

https://christspiracy.com/

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