In the new testament, Jesus went and braided a whip out of leather -- a process which takes several hours, meaning this was cold rage and not hot impulse -- and proceeded to thrash the shit out of a bunch of people profiteering off of religion.
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kind of like luigi prepared a 3d printed gun and suppressor, a process which takes several hours, and proceeded to trash the shit out of a profiteering asshole
And every so often you still get young men trying to cleanse the temple mount by force of arms. Talk about starting a trend.
I'm an atheist and basically always have been, but I grew up around some religious people and one thing I've never forgotten was some advice this one guy gave me (8 or 9) and his daughters (8 and 6):
Jesus once whooped the ass of every mother fucker in a church because they were breaking the rules. So if you ever need to ask yourself "What would Jesus do?" never forget that a righteous ass-beating is an option if the situation is severe enough
It's not that they were breaking the rules, it's that they were preying on vulnerable people.
If you want to talk about Jesus' relationship with rules, look at the people he chose to spend time with -- outcasts and social undesirables. Rulebreakers. Vulnerable people, people who didn't have the luxury of pondering where stealing bread lies morally when you're starving.
And look at his response to the question about which commandment was the most important: "If you thought it was about the rules, you missed the point".
He also flipped moneychangers tables. He basically sat while fuming, and braided a whip, and then showed the people the proper ending to a Monopoly game.
The proper ending to a Monopoly game is to switch the rules to "Prosperity" mode and play again.
That's The Landlord's Game. I was specifically referring to just Monopoly.
Same, dude.
It’s important to remember the actual teachings of Jesus in the Bible. These fuckers call themselves Christians but the fact is, most of them don’t know the first thing about what was written.
I’m not even sure he existed but I’ll be damned if I’m not going to spin that around. Especially once you get into the shit they left out of the Bible.
Ex-christian here. Jesus wasn't a doormat and didn't advocate for others to be doormats. Just because the powerful in society have cultivated their way of reading the new testament doesn't mean you have to agree with their interpretation. Again and again and again, Jesus speaks out against wealth and power, and got crucified after he pissed off the money changers. Ofc, Jesus isn't actually followed by Christians outside of the crucifixion bit; who they really follow is Paul, who was actually pretty cool with wealth, power, and the status quo.
In case you're wondering, my disagreements with the Christian community at large are a big part (but not the only part) of why I'm no longer a Christian. The guy I read about and the guy they seem to be thinking of are two different people. The guy I read about would be chasing the republicans with whips.
Ex-catholic. Fuck Paul and his stupid, Roman ass shit. Ruined the whole thing, honestly.
Fuck Paul. Amen. Guy had some issues.
Even Jesus had his heated moments. Going by the stories, didn't Jesus fly into a rage and literally flip tables just because he didn't like seeing people making money in a temple?
Yes.
It wasn't just people making money, it was that the money changers and the temple were working together to fleece the devout who were coming from far away to show their faith.
It's not like if somebody had a for-profit Cafe inside a church, it's more like the televangelist that use other peoples' devotion to get rich, saying you have to pay more and more to get into heaven.
it's more like the televangelist that use other peoples' devotion to get rich
Hey don't drag Kenneth copeland's good name. He needs a brand new jet so he can spread the word of God without associating with the demons in commercial flights.
That man looks like a demon wearing a human suit.
And it's not a very good human suit.
Right? This is a proper human suit.
Yeah, that's the money changers. He showed up and saw people doing financial trades in THE temple. It'd be like seeing a western union in the Vatican, though it may have been more extreme. Jesus made a whip by hand, busted in, and started flipping tables and chasing folks with the whip. It seems to be no coincidence that he was crucified pretty shortly after that particular stunt. Everyone in power was happy to roll their eyes and scoff until he touched the money.
my disagreements with the Christian community at large are a big part (but not the only part) of why I'm no longer a Christian. The guy I read about and the guy they seem to be thinking of are two different people.
Same. I still remember the day that I basically paraphrased a Jesus quote in a discussion of current events with my family, and someone asked me if I was some kind of communist and multiple others piled on with no one coming to my defense.
Apparently, actually believing the shit they taught me makes me some kind of radical...
Jesus was a communist and any Christian who believes the teachings of Jesus is a communist too.
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The guy I read about and the guy they seem to be thinking of are two different people.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ - Mohandas Gandhi
It's a fuckin banger of a quote, but I regret to say that thanks to ADHD-fueled scourings of random internet rabbit holes instead of of doing college work, I've read that there's no evidence Gandhi actually said that.
Jesus would beat modern Christians to death with his bare hands. I guess that's why he's supposed to be wrathful when he returns.
Eh people overblow what Jesus did to the moneychangers and merchants in the temple. Yeah he made a whip and used it to drive the animals out, and he flipped over the tables scattering the money everywhere. But he never tried to to hurt people, just get them out of the temple and disrupt all the commerce going on.
Jesus Christ Superstar's temple scene is probably the most accurate recreation of that passage as written in the Bible. He trashed all the stuff, flipped tables and sent everyone else away. He wouldn't have beaten people to death, that's not the message he preached or the actions he took.
While true, can you imagine Fox news' coverage of just such an action today? He might as well have [redacted] by the way those actions would be portrayed.
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Jean-Marie le Pen: Dies
The Internet:
remember kids, if you get upset when Nazis die, you're a Nazi sympathizer.
Some of the people: "But what if they were fundamentally a 'good guy?'"
Me: "Did I fucking stutter‽‽‽"
This is about Le Pen?
Or it's a very delayed meme about Hitler.
She died? May jesus provide her with a nickname that reflects the way she lived her life.
In very unrelated news, I got half of my daily steps in, so I'm going to celebrate that. I am not celebrating the death of a politician, I am celebrating achieving my difficult goal of 4400 steps.
Not Marie, but her dad.
Ah
So she's having a shit day.
I can celebrate at that at, least
The dad was the party leader for a long long time, he's the one that brought the Lepen name to be synonymous with fachism/far-right. The daughter is just carrying the legacy and trying to make the party more modern, but anyone my age or older thinks of Jean-Marie first when they hear lepen.
People like that voided their social contract tolerance the moment they broke it.
This. The only people who deserve the protections of a social contract are the parties who agree to it and are bound by it. Tolerance, safety, property, freedom; these are all social contracts that are under attack right now and those who would violate them of others do not deserve protection under them from the rest of us.
Trying to say someone on the left calling out or censuring a Nazi is like saying that someone can't sue you because they signed an indemnity contract with your neighbor.
I hate people who say shit like "if you're glad a nazi died, you're as bad as they are". Even something phrased in a more inflammatory manner, like "all Nazis must die" still wouldn't make me anything like them. The crux of the matter is that people like me, who the Nazis would prefer to be dead, will always be a target for their bigotry; I will always be a queer cripple. Whereas a Nazi can grow the hell up, recognise our shared humanity and stop being a bloody Nazi. Depending on how much harm they caused as a Nazi, it might take a fair bit of work to redeem themselves in the eyes of their community (and some people may never feel okay associating with them), but ultimately it's their choice — they're actively opting out of the social contract and they're welcome at any point to opt back in (if they're willing to do the work that involves)
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Bye Jean-Marie, you will not be missed
It's probably a coincidence but Jean-Marie Le Pen died today you know!
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