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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Jesus wasn't "against the accumulation of wealth,"

You, uh, wanna remind me what's easier than a rich man getting into heaven?

nor "against the control of traditional regional elites" for its own sake. If that's what you took from it, you aren't looking, which is expected.

I can launch into a lecture about the relation of Iudean sects with the Christian Gospels and how the environment of Roman Iudea of that period influenced the writing of both Christ's views as expressed in the Gospels and Paul's epistles if you like. I'm looking plenty. I've looked plenty.

Jesus didn't have a prescription for any particular economic model.

... insofar as he wasn't a polisci philosopher, sure? But the values expressed are pretty unambiguously against the contractual-redistributive method of Iudean elites and against the proto-capitalist accumulation of wealth by Roman elites. This is not abnormal for pre-modern populists, but it is certainly anti-capitalist in the sense that the basic premise that the arguments are founded on are directly and explicitly contrary to the basic ideas of capitalism, due to the fact that such pre-modern populists are generally attempting to address and appeal to an agrarian and deeply communal audience.

Perhaps you can come up with a list of people who care or cared what color Jesus was, but it's an extremely short list compared to the list of people who don't, and so it's disingenuous to pretend like the average Christian cares.

You're fooling yourself, guy. There are a hell of a lot of racists still around, and racists definitely care what color their savior is.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

Wealth is a stumbling block for many, and Christ warns of that. That does not set Christ against money, and it doesn't make the possession of money evil. It doesn't make money evil.