• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    He wasn't angry about capitalism, he was angry about sacrilege.

    I also have to point out, when libertarians say shit about trade, we always need to remind them that buying and selling things is not capitalism by itself.

    So, don't be libertarian, even if just for this one scene.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Not exactly. Jesus didn't mind regular merchants, though he's pretty clear and consistent that a love of wealth is incompatible with a love of God. The deal with the temple is that they were basically selling God, selling salvation, and profiteering off of faith. IIRC, you couldn't bring animals or offerings to the temple, you had to buy them there, their lambs, their doves, etc, because how can they make money if everyone just brings their stuff? It's pretty telling that after years of doing his thing, Jesus finally gets merc'd just days after this happened. Thankfully, though, we all learned this lesson and never ever did anything like this ever again. =)

  • Raphaël A. Costeau@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    JB JAMES Chapter 5

    5:1 Now an answer for the rich. Start crying, weep for the miseries that are coming to you.

    5:2 Your wealth is all rotting, your clothes are all eaten up by moths.

    5:3 All your gold and your silver are corroding away, and the same corrosion will be your own sentence, and eat into your body. It was a burning fire that you stored up as your treasure for the last days.

    5:4 Labourers mowed your fields, and you cheated them – listen to the wages that you kept back, calling out; realise that the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

    5:5 On earth you have had a life of comfort and luxury; in the time of slaughter you went on eating to your heart’s content.

    5:6 It was you who condemned the innocent and killed them; they offered you no resistance.

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