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i left reddit for good today with their obvious attempt at controlling the narrative like the rest of big social media. long live the lemmy federation

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Romans felt threatened because of Jesus.

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well he was super violent.

and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

Upvoting that probably gets a ban now.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I like the line by Killer Mike ("Walking in the Snow"), which I think he says he got from Dick Gregory:

"All of us serve the same masters, all of us nothin' but slaves / Never forget in the story of Jesus, the hero was killed by the state".

Powerful stuff.

Edit to add: honestly that whole track rips and is super relevant right now.

[–] cetaceanprayers@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

killer mike is a sellout, you might wanna pick a hero with morals

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait what? Gonna need to hear more there, everything I know about the guy has been positive. That does happen though so I'm open to the possibility of course.

[–] cetaceanprayers@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

started parroting alt right talking points and hanging out with dave chappelle, pipeline is there. seems to not care now that he has his money.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t know if that’s evidence he was super violent. I might guess this story was made up to prevent people of business stealing power and influence from church leaders.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It was probably more to do with the destruction of the Temple that was there when Jesus was alive but destroyed 40 years later, there are many nods to this in the gospels, because it's trying to contextualize current events with the Christian religious movement, it was important that Jesus was prophetic, and him driving out vendors from the temple is a strong image, here is the messiah, rejected by the Jews he here to save, and he correcting them, telling them to remove vendors from temple ground, and they refused to listen, so God allowed the temple to be destroyed.

Or maybe it's more the image of the sacrificial animal's symbolic of the Jews being chased from their homelands by a whip god controls turned against them for their sins.