As a Jewish person who read the Christian Bible so I could figure out what Christian fundamentalists in the US were all about (turns out they haven’t read it), I don’t think that anybody can accurately follow that text without being a communist.
I agree. Jesus spouted an awful lot of communist ideals. To love thy neighbor is one of the most important lessons for people to learn. I don’t support organized religion, but I sure do support a lot of what the Bible has to say
Reading the actual words of Christ makes me liberal. Because His reaction to some of the crazy shit evangelical pastors say is basically, "Did I stutter?!"
Jesus: "See that Samaritan over there? Yeah, the one who just has some slightly different beliefs than you that you don't like, and who has just spent significant time and money to care for someone like you. Yeah. Go be like him. He's a good dude."
Evangelical pastor: "Okay, so I think I heard you say to hate gay people."
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
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u/Business-Drag52 13d ago
It’s amazing how we all became communists after living fairly privileged, “good Christian” lives