"A better world is possible, you just have to wait until after you die"

  • CatherineTheSoSo [any]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah. Being nice to the less fortunate is a tenet of most major religions. Your religion isn't getting big if it doesn't have a bit of populism in it.

    Jesus repeatedly spoke against trying to fundamentally change political and economical structures. If he was a socialist he was a leftcom of some sort.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I mean, I sort of agree with chud Evangelicals when they say Jesus didn't have an overtly political message. He was talking to his followers, talking to them specifically about sharing shit with each other and MAYBE taking care of the poor people of their in-group. All in preparation of a coming apocalytic event. Even these things are a small part of his message. Tbh I don't really see Jesus' sayings to have much value, either politically, socially, or religiously.