How can Christians justify being right wing, greedy, rich and all round general vindictive, bigoted psychopaths when Jesus is pretty clear in his disdain for wealth, rich people, merchants, sellers and is pretty fucking clear in his views of sharing, communal living, non-bigotry etc etc? It's pretty obvious from reading the New Testament (and going to a Catholic Private school, we had to do this A LOT) that Jesus was basically a Kibbutzim-esque proto-Socialist.
Wouldn't any self-respecting Christian who isn't a disingenuous fuck subscribe to Liberation Theology? It's like Christians don't actually follow Christ at all, but instead, follow archaic medieval rules shit out by the church and popes in the medieval era rather than anything actually to do with Jesus.
Debs writing on Jesus and how he was hijacked by the right.
Colton Robinson
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Juan Walker
Into the trash it goes
Islamic Gommunism best gommunism
Gavin Anderson
It's argued that American Christianity doesn't actually worship Jesus or God, but worships America and American exceptionalism AS god
And even funnier I come from a left wing atheist family.
The truth is that in my city Catholic Private schools are as common as public schools and my parents only sent me there because when we immigrated here my cousins were going there.
Also Catholic school fucking SUCKED. Shitty education (Seriously, our school had the 2nd lowest grading average) and instead of Philosophy class we had "Religion" class where they just wrote shit on a blackboard from the bible and we had to copy it into our books. We had to do this for fucking HOURS daily. They also butchered other religions and showed anti-abortion and anti-safe sex videos.
Grayson Sanchez
Max Weber claimed capitalism in Northern Europe was a product of Protestant values.
Zachary Thompson
Catholic Schools are absolutely terrible and receive disproportionate funding to public schools in my area. They are technically secular, but they tamper with grades on the basis of religion.
Jose Nelson
American religious leaders made a conscious decision to start preaching a false gospel to prop up the republican party in order to save themselves from being murdered by communists after the revolution.
They're literally trying to retranslate the bible to make it pro capitalism and pro rich.
Chase Wood
Very few people actually follow their religion, most follow their communities and cultural values they have been brought up with. And even when they attempt to follow their religion, it becomes hard as fuck because most religions are full of contradictions.
tl;dr: Political Christianity is every bit as evil and treasonous as political Islam, and always has been wherever it has shown up.
Grayson Rodriguez
It's funny that when the church criticizes Capitalism, it doesn't criticize it from a point of it being an exploitative, psychopathic mode of production that destroys lives and communities, it basically criticizes it from the point of view of "Waaaah, under Feudalism we were the king of kings, now nobody gives a shit about us waaah"'.
Catholicism has always cared about itself as a political and wealth centralizing institution first, and everything else second. The church is truly reactionary.
This is true in a way. In protestantism, to work hard is to be good and God rewards those who work hard with wealth.
This is how Prostestant/Evangelical christians justify basically worshiping Capitalism and America.
Oliver Cox
Thus with empire or any institution with a growth imperative at its core.
Quick rundown of the Great Chain of Being: originally Plato's org chart of the material universe, from God through living beings down to minerals. Prosperity gospel is a particular Christian theology due to Calvin and his ilk. It is not the only theological frame in which to view Christian scripture and scholarship, but it is most compatible with the religious sensibilities the US has inherited. I heartily recommend familiarizing yourself with the Liberation Theology movement, which was very popular in the 1950s and 1960s in the Spanish-speaking Americas and demonstrably compatible with the socialism they built for themselves. It's worth distinguishing religion, the doctrine, from religious sensibilities, the theories of the people which fill in the gaps between doctrine and praxis. American religious sensibilities can and will turn any religion into a shite chimera with rabbinical Judaism. Christianity just happened to be nearest to hand at the time and stunningly amenable to the transformation.
t.former Good News Club member
Jacob Watson
Because Paul of Tarsus turned it into a religion centered around being forgiven your trespasses by believing in Jesus as the Messiah, whereas Jesus' own movement was 100% focused on this idea of the "Kingdom of God" and how people were to treat each other in order to be worthy of it. It was hijacked right from the start.
Camden Hernandez
Because God bless my country. t.christian
Benjamin White
remember that liberation theology is best
Brandon Ramirez
Christian =/= Catholic Papacy before Reformation
Jack Morgan
Lutherans and anabaptists were burned at the stake for socialist ideals. Martin Luther came out in support of capital to prevent his own death.
Logan Allen
Did you go to Catholic school in Canada? It sounds like it. I went to Catholic school as well.
Jackson Adams
Religiosity is based on doublethink. Expect shit like this.
Nicholas Reyes
You got to love the butthurt the Christian world got when he said that.
"But muh 100 gorgillion, just ignore the church is also responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths and largely responsible for the aids epidemic and engaged in widespread pedophilia and in asia engage in widespread human slavery literally only 70 years ago"
Jacob Parker
Thr problem with Christianity is not that it supports the rich but is that it supports spirtual struggle over material. Rendor onto Caesar, after all. It tells you not to focus on material conditions but the spiritual. This the opposite of what the radical left wants to do.
Austin Torres
I went to one too, I want my 4 years back
Brayden Sanders
Christianity, like all religion, is just used to uphold class rule
Connor Reed
finally an excuse to post this
Bentley Davis
My catho-commie (its actualy a thing in pizza-land) always says that he thinks of communism as the armed wing of christianity.
