The American Right-Wing Christians don’t seem to care for Jesus - they appear to pretty much ignore everything in the New Testament because it’s “lefty and woke”. They do seem to like the Old Testament bits where you kill/enslave/rape/rob people who are weaker or slightly different from you.
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Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
If Americans want to mold themselves in Jesus’ image of Christian perfection, the rich men in the world have to give to the poor, aka eat the rich.
Matthew Chapter 19, verses 21 to 24
Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me." When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth. Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
floo@retrolemmy.com 4 weeks ago
Oh, they like Jesus well enough to be huge fans of his “get out of jail free” card that comes with believing in him. That way, the most evil people in the world believe that they can get away with it in the afterlife, using this “one simple trick“.
Genius@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
So that’s why they live Israel so much! /joking
JakenVeina@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Love the followup to that verse.
Master, who then can be saved?
Jesus, internally: Oh, shit, good point, uhh…
What is impossible for man is not impossible for God.
Dude was just talking out his ass the whole time.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Lol. But the overall point is, regardless of whatever you believe in, the common theme of moral teachings is to be good to others, not how many hours you should work or how many times one should be beaten for a transgression. Anything else gained from religious text or tradition is a speculative interpretation brought from the ancient to the modern context, and should be taken and understood as such.
MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
be careful with this one because the types of people this applies to will just twist its meaning into “Poor people need to own less. Minimum wage is too high”.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They twisted “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” which was an example of expecting the poor to do the impossible into blaming the poor. They will twist literally everything, so there is no reason to be careful.
Geobloke@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I heard this preached at church a few weeks ago, the gist of it was, that Jesus knew how important being rich was to the man and until he let go of that, he could never let Love fully into his life