"Poetic take" on the state of the US

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We’re getting ever closer to biblical times, where the exploitation of the masses by a tiny minority was the norm. Democracy and equity are, historically speaking, a very new development and we’ve been backsliding for quite a while now.

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    new in western Europe* colonialism eliminated many societies that found ways to run their societies without the kinds of authoritarian power structures common in western Europe. the imperial powers, including eastern Asia (China and Japan), moscow, and western Europe wiped out threats to these authoritarian power structures. the societies they encountered were scientifically advanced in ways the imperial powers didn’t truly understand because those powers only interacted with the world around them via violence

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Can you name any examples for such societies? With evidence, preferably.

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• sumguyonline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I dunno which version this is from, but damn, this was in a letter to Christians of the times, PEOPLE DIDN’T CHANGE! Interesting, and sad.

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  • letsgo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nearly Infallible Version: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+5&vers…

    I don’t think it was aimed at the elect though, just rich people in general. Although any rich believers would have been wise to pay attention to the message.

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• BeefPiano@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I read this in the voice of “Macho Man” Randy Savage.

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• modifier@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Now accepting preorders for black t-shirts with simple block letters across the chest:

  JAMES 5:1-6

  On the back:

  THE INERRANT WORD OF GOD

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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Instead we have “Now listen, you rich people, cheer and dance because of the greater wealth that will be coming to you. Your wealth has fattened, and gold adorns your clothes. Your gold and silver is polished by an army of tongues of bootlickers. Their saliva testifies to your greatness, you will eat the flesh of the finest beasts. You have and will continue to hoard wealth as is Good™ to do. Look! The wages you fail to pay the workers who built your empire are justified, they are just immigrants and liberals. The cries of the workers are of silent text on screens, read by the unimportant, the powerless. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence and will continue to do so. You have fattened yourself on another day of your joy. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who you’ve made to oppose one another, and laughed at their suffering. Good show.”

  -Me now:today

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  • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lol I was gonna say, unless this is supposed to be a prophesy of the future, things are almost literally the complete opposite of the quoted text right now.

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• Reality_Suit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The ritious shall become wicked, and the wicked shall become ritious. But remember, there is always fluxx. There is always a state of change. Oscillations and vibrations that, though there are small, shall have great effect over the whole.

  Over, and over, and over…

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  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    righteous?

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    • Reality_Suit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hah! I must’ve accepted to override spellchecker. I. Feel. Stupid.

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To the secular and the naturalist, this tells us it was a problem even then.

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  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m an atheist, but isn’t a lot of the bible social commentary? The new testament at least, surely.

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    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But did you consider the letters from Paul? I can assure you, powerful rich people are definitely right according to Paul. Or, if not wrong, can be saved merely through their faith.

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Consider the origin and understand that today’s trials are just repeats of those referenced in the script

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They don’t recognize their own dogmatic literature.

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Rich people facing consequences? Right

  And people wonder why many call the Bible fiction…

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• WrenFeathers@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh I’ll be using this!

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