“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Matthew 19:24
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
2nd Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
Luke 12:33
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
I can see why Aaron Sorkin-style "own them with their own words" stuff is so tempting to buy into. It really is satisfying to just shit all over some asshole by knowing what they claim to know better than they do.
Yeah dropping God is a capitalist is like t the easiest possible thing to refute even if we're, for some reason, basing out arguments about modern society on ancient scripture
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.
Matthew 6:24
Matthew 19:24
2nd Thessalonians 3:10
Luke 12:33
I can see why Aaron Sorkin-style "own them with their own words" stuff is so tempting to buy into. It really is satisfying to just shit all over some asshole by knowing what they claim to know better than they do.
I use quotes like this on my conservative, restaurant owning, landlord step dad. super religious dude and can never respond afterwards to me
Yeah dropping God is a capitalist is like t the easiest possible thing to refute even if we're, for some reason, basing out arguments about modern society on ancient scripture
Almost like Jesus got fucking pissed and flipped market stalls inside a temple. Like the only time he ever got angry in the Bible
There was also that time he cursed a fig tree because it wasn't in fruit and he was hungry.
Why not just make the fruit grow? Why not just go hungry like he did in the desert for 40 days/nights?
Dunno, not a Christian. I guess Jesus is grumpy when he's hungry.
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This is a much bigger deal than it first appears, too, given how often the Bible treats foreigners like second-class citizens or worse.
“But I did nothing, for I was not a wage worker.”
James 5:1-6