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You heard it here first folks. Jesus was of the radical left.
Right wingers have lost their goddamn minds.
Unironically, Jesus was radical left in many ways. Many Christians do not like to confront those aspects of the bible.
Let criminals into your home. Give them shelter and food. Give all of your money to charity. If someone harms you, turn the other cheek. Feed the poor before yourself. Brutally whip greedy wealthy people. Those are just some fun examples.
This is a bit of an aside, but the "turn the other cheek" passage from the bible is interpreted in multiple ways. My favorite is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_the_other_cheek
I'm hardly a biblical scholar, but that interpretation doesn't feel like it fits with the rest of the passage...
38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’[h] 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.It says turn them the other cheek also, after 'do not resist'. So it's about offering even to the worst, rather than resisting.
So it's kind of like a pre-medieval gentlemanly way of saying "let's take this outside"?
It’s what MLK did so well, and honestly, this is the first step to breaking the GOPs monopoly on religion and the Southern Strategy.
“And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.” Acts 2:44-47 ESV
Sounds pretty radically left to me.
Huh, sounds vaguely familiar... Something like, "from each, according to their ability, to which according to their need"?
where does Jesus say to feed the poor before yourself?
I'll be real with you, I have no idea, but I do know that that sentiment is expressed several times in several different parts of the bible. It's not one of the more popular messages with the standard Christian crowd.
It isn't though? It's you should feel hungry people when you are not hungry.
Nobody wants you to do that, shut up.
Except for brutally whipping greedy people, I don’t think any of that is radical at all.
It isn't, but we're talking about Trump's definition of radical.
Jesus told you that if you saw a guy who needs clothes and you have clothes you aren’t wearing you should give that guy some clothes. This was a strong inspiration for a major philosophy that for some reason many “Christians” hate called Marxism
Every church has the potential to become the a mutual aide community. It’s what Jesus would have wanted
They used to be and some still are.
Conservatives would probably be first in line to crucify him if they lived back then.
Or if he returned, as their legend portends.
They see Trump as the Second Coming, and wear his symbol on their foreheads, blinding themselves to the truth that he's the antiChrist.
TBH he really was, but most self-professed Christians don't understand that.
"Blessed are the aggressive, for they shall inherit the Earth."
Unmeekness is not necessarily aggressive (Matthew 5:5 is about humility, not docility).
Not necessarily, but it is one antonym.
Sure thing, but if your implicit criticism of this poster holds from a strictly grammatical point of view, it holds less from a theological one.
Attacking traders, saying that you should share your food because you'll get it back several times over, rebelling against autocratic rulers, solidarity and meeting the poor and marginalised at eye level
Definitely extreme left.
And does anyone remember the time when his affinity group resisted Jesus' imprisonment by the security authorities by cutting off one of the officers' ears? I have my doubts that it happened that way because the guy was seen with both ears several times afterwards, but the ~~police~~ legionnaires would never invent details to make the leftists look worse.
This shows that the movement surrounding the carpenter "Jesus" is obviously ready for violence. Also, numerous talks by followers of this group about a "Kingdom of God" (we suspect this is dog whispering for "dictatorship of the proletariat" as some leftists say they are "their own god"). In addition, influential members of this movement openly spoke of overthrowing the existing order. Although these plans were thwarted by "Jesus", his tolerance towards potential ideological perpetrators of violence suggests that he does not rule out a violent overthrow.
The group should be categorised as left-wing extremist and left-wing terrorist and should be smashed immediately.