Getting a wealthy investor to trust a homeless person with startup capital truly is less believable than the son of god walking on water
It's a very childish depiction of capitalism that's pitched to the ear of kids who set up lemonade stands with their parents' money.
This is the sort of shit Trump implies when he talks about being a self-made man who just got a million dollar loan from his father.
And the idea of a rich person listening to Jesus back then. Rich people fucking hated him.
He'll just admire how Jesus inspired him to cure his own leprosy by pulling himself up by his bootstraps
Pretty sure Catholicism is less heretical than whatever the Americans are worshiping
Prager is a Jew, although he refers to himself as a Judeo-Christian so that he can lump the two religions together as part of a struggle by the "civilised" west against the "barbaric" east and pretend all western progress was made on the back of a shared set of values.
pretend all western progress was made on the back of a shared set of values
I would like to ask someone who believes this why there have been so many wars in western Europe, up to and including the world wars, if the West all have the same values.
I don't think he thought about to any degree more than :us-foreign-policy:
well many of those world wars were because of the shared value of belief in violent domination of those weaker than you
not good values but values none the less
They do share the same values of death and brutality.
:think-about-it:
Best part is that they have to use ‘Judeo-Christian’ instead of Abrahamic, cause, you know, that includes Muslims
Funny thing is Catholicism created purgatory for the majority of people but Jews are barred from entering and don’t start with what Luther thought about the Jews.
Judeo-Christianity is a cope for the Seppos trying to create a cultural narrative
The Catholics have deprecated purgatory in the last couple of decades. iirc they said "It doesn't exist, people made it up in the middle ages, don't worry about it God isn't interested in torturing you you'll be fine.
Ties in to the popular conception of Hell being almost entirely fan fiction.
It's more that it's a state of existence rather than a place, which like Dante's hell is entirely fan fiction.
There are 2 points of doctrine
Some souls are purified after death;
Such souls benefit from the prayers and pious duties that the living do for them. (Because of the communion of the saints, which people in purgatory are by definition.)That's it. Recent popes have expanded upon this as more a transformation of the soul to become capable of heaven, which the goodwill of those you leave behind makes less wrenching. Note the similarities to Karma here.
if he is a Jew why does he care if Christ was a socialist after all if you don't think Christ is a prophet or the son of God couldn't you just comfortably not listen to what Jesus has to say
because he's actually proselytizing Capitalism and a lot of the rubes in his target audience need this contradiction reconciled for them
yeah but you have to be pretty out there to call catholics heretical. Never met someone who though Catholics were heretical who didn't also believe in witches
''Never met someone who though Catholics were heretical who didn’t also believe in witches''
Funny because Malleus Maleficarum was written by a Catholic Priest which is a rulebook that became official within the Catholic church to hunt heretics until the Renaissance. Demonology is literally some shit that Catholics created and Luther somehow also believed in it
to give the Catholic church some credit they told that guy to shut up and that he was clearly just a creep with weird ideas about women. His local bishop explicitly called him "senile and crazy"
the malleus maleficarnum was condemned by the Catholic church and was deemed not in line with the Catholic view of demonology.
While a catholic wrote the damn thing he was then told by the broader catholic church to shut the fuck up and that he clearly just wanted to kill women because he's a creep
it was the secular and protestant courts who prosecuted witchcraft as Catholicism has the doctrinal position that witches don't exist so they were just murdering random women
Protestantism was the ones who really got into witchcraft as an idea
the malleus maleficarnum was condemned by the Catholic church and was deemed not in line with the Catholic view of demonology.
Yep. The idea that the malleus maleficarum reflected the doctrine of the church at the time is a pop history idea, debunked by historians ages ago and I love you for pointing out that it was the secular authorities that most prosecuted witchcraft, and even especially in protestant countries. The inquisition is another aspect of that understanding of history which is completely misunderstood. It's jurisdiction was so strictly defined to assure the orthodoxy of religion that, again, the odds are that if you fell afoul of the religious state you'd be prosecuted by a regular ass judge.
Thank you. It is frustrating how easily people can use Malleus Maleficarium to make the opposite point of reality. It was heresy, the Council of Paderborn in 735 outlawed the belief in witches, something that became widespread by the end of the Middle Ages. I know it is wikipedia, but I think this section gets the point across
The Inquisition within the Roman Catholic Church had conducted trials against supposed witches in the 13th century, but these trials were to punish heresy, of which belief in witchcraft was merely one variety.[6] Inquisitorial courts only became systematically involved in the witch-hunt during the 15th century: in the case of the Madonna Oriente, the Inquisition of Milan was not sure what to do with two women who in 1384 and in 1390 confessed to have participated in a type of white magic.
Not all Inquisitorial courts acknowledged witchcraft. For example, in 1610 as the result of a witch-hunting craze the Suprema (the ruling council of the Spanish Inquisition) gave everybody an Edict of Grace (during which confessing witches were not to be punished) and put the only dissenting inquisitor, Alonso de Salazar Frías, in charge of the subsequent investigation. The results of Salazar's investigation was that the Spanish Inquisition did not bother witches ever again though they still went after heretics and Crypto-Jews
They continue to stress that witch trials as a phenomenon are Protestant through and through. Others carried them out, but the standard practices are post-Reformation. I've been reading "The Many-Headed Hydra: Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic" and just got done with a section covering how widespread executions became in England, and they make some fascinating points about how Protestant development of capitalism encouraged witch-hunting and the like as a means of making an example of those who lived in the commons and now had nowhere to go who they regarded by law as "idlers" with vagabond acts and poor laws being enacted to explicitly make them slaves. Executions made it easier to kill the "excess" and make future arrestees more likely to take the hellish penalty of slavery in the colonies. The development of capitalism at home in England genuinely is what "perfected" so many of these methods and the particulars of the more famous witch-trials.
They framed section with the black dog of Newgate, a story from the time by a former prisoner symbolizing law and why you must obey. They assign to it different disabilities upon people, different ways people became controlled or restricted, being inability to name the oppressor, overwhelming horror thus conduced to a desire for death, and finally terror. That the presence of the authorities and the prisons broke and enslaved people, and the terror of those executions made them contemplate that submission might be better than isolation or being in Newgate.
I have to say I am LOVING this book
Which, believing in witches is itself heresy bc it suggests that Satan can give people magic powers.
It's a heresy in Catholicism hardline anti-Catholics (who are often just anti-immigrant) do not accept Catholic teaching
And when the merchants set up in the temple, Jesus said: "Come one, come all! Get ye' holy loans at lowest-ever rates!"
I do like how honest this is about capitalism. First, we blaspheme against the word of God himself. Second, we admit capitalism functions on the desires of what random rich people decide should happen. Third, if you're homeless, the best you have to hope for us debt servitude to a rich person who will absolutely make you homeless again at their first inclination.
Heal the sick, bring faith to the faithless, and help people live beyond their weak nature to the end of profit for a random rich asshole.
Jesus preventing people from getting into heaven so he'd have more space for activities.
In my father's house are many rooms; but I need this one for the pool table bro
speaking of WWJD....
would jesus set up a meeting with a wealthy investor before showing the beggar how to wash the dirt off his face? that seems like VC prep 101.
Maybe Judaism is right, the first messiah is the fake one and in this case an agent of mammon
Jesus working as a party cadre in a rural village as part of China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation campaign
Jesus during the Cultural Revolution would be a pretty wild anime.
I don't care if it rains or freezes
As long as I got my supply-side Jesus
Sitting on the dashboard of my car
Though I may have scars and a boil
He'll hook me up with rich man's oil
Assuring me with debt I will go far
I won't fear class precarity
As long as I got trickle-down Mary
Sitting on the dashboard of my car
I may be under a mountain of debt
But at least I'm no longer proletariat
And if I cause trouble, I know what the consequences are
Quick reminder that in the actual fucking Bible:
- Jesus says rich people don’t go to heaven
- Jesus beats merchants with a whip and overturned their tables
- Jesus’ closest disciples are described as forming a protocommunist society (Acts 2:44)
In conclusion, :jesus-cleanse:
What if the wealthy investor was the government and the small business was the homeless person's wellbeing :thinky-felix:
It's so easy! Just go to the Chamber of Exploitation and the wealthy fucks getting drunk over there hand out money, land, buildings and infrastructure hand over fist at any lame brained idea tossed their way!
