• peto (he/him)English
    34•4 days ago

    And lo, when he saw the moneylenders working out of the temple, he said: “see how the wealth of these men sometimes falls out of their bulging pockets, and look, they pay that man who carries their wealth enough to survive. I mean not to own a house, or to live comfortably without fear. But you know, he can rent one of their spare houses for just most of his pay, and if he is sick, they shall call to him and say ‘look, we really need you in tomorrow, you need to be a team player.’ They truly are the most righteous of men, for does not my father say: if I wanted the poor to be rich, I’d have given them gold?”

  • IninewCrowEnglish
    31•4 days ago

    Supply Side Jesus

    These idiots don’t worship a god … all they believe in is money and wealth … it’s the new age religion, dressed up as a middle eastern prophet and based on a magical book that no one reads.

    • @chillinit
      3•4 days ago

      I read it multiple times. The New Testament and parts of the Old are full of wisdom still relevant today. The core theme of the New is to think for yourself.

      I started thinking: “Why in the everliving fuck would an intelligent being create such a diverse species then expect them to all to enlighten themselves the exact same way?”

      It wouldn’t. And, that’s why I’m not a Christian.

      The best Christians I’ve ever met are exactly where Jesus would have them: serving the most sick in the Catholic Church.

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 days ago

        I’d been in churches and been a Christian myself for years and years and then I met an actual Christian. He was leading a team running an orphanage in east Europe. He’d sold his house so that he could start and fund the place and rescue kids from the sewers, prostitution and heroine. The kids there were happy and healthy and played around him like he was some father abraham. He and his team would go out at night to rescue the kids from living in the drains. He told us about an 11 year old boy who he had warned repeatedly (the kids were legally free to leave) and who they had found just a few nights ago dead in a sewer from a drug overdose. He wept bitterly at all the things he thought he could have done better. He was a great big bear of a man, big beard, looked like he should have been a Russian lumberjack or something. What I thought was particularly sweet was him crying didn’t disturb any of the kids happily playing about - they were evidently used to seeing him vulnerable, this gentle giant. From time to time as they played about they’d stand next to him, as if just resting in his protection for a moment before their chase game would carry on. Any child next to him he’d fondly put his hand on their head as he talked to us with tears in his eyes. I have never met a man so humble or who so thoroughly dismantled in an instant what I thought was a ‘good christian life’ in the West.

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 days ago

    As rules go, these are pretty good. Shamelessly stolen from TST.

    I. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

    II. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

    III. One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

    IV. The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.

    V. Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.

    VI. People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.

    VII. Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.