yhea, because making a society liveable and comfortable for everyone would also include “them”, you don’t want them to be ok.
so better suffer under a system that lets you make “their” world even worse
Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus
gi1242@lemmy.world 1 day ago
what I’m amazed by is that those who would benefit most from socialism are the ones who call it “handouts” and vote against it
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 day ago
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The Christian ways. Exactly what Christ taught.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 day ago
the gospel of supply side jesus
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Ironically, western culture today suffers from one of the same falsehoods that Jesus himself preached against: the idea that poverty is a moral failing. They believe that the rich are wealthy because they’ve “earned it” in some way, and therefore must be morally superior for their work ethic. Conveniently, this also allows the wealthy to keep a clean conscience–if everyone was as “good” as they are, they could all be enjoying this life too.
So with this mindset, all “good” people who are poor are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires–they identify with the rich, who actively abuse and suppress them, because they believe themselves to be part of the same “moral party.”
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Prosperity Gospel folks go a step further and equate wealth and health with the will of god. That being well-off is the direct result of being in god’s good graces. It side-steps observations of financial inequality in the face of moral equality, by hand-waving exceptional wealth as deserved by truly rare and exceptional people. And that conveniently plays off of confusing causation for correlation, so we arrive at “money = godly.”
For the record: I hate that this has a name and it’s a real thing.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Yeah, Joel Osteen has a special place in hell. The boiler room. All the way down.