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[–] 7 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I saw a post on Reddit saying that Jesus was not a pacifist.

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    Jesus was not a pacifist in any way.

    Please note that He promised to return at the head of an angel army, and they butcher everybody.

    The resulting lake of blood will be miles wide and "as deep as a horse's bridle"

    That's not pacifist, that's fucking metal

    (source: Bible, skip to the end)

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Well he DID flip a table and whip a bunch of people this one time. That's not very pacifist of him.

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    It was passover - when many people made a pilgrimage to what is now the Dome of the Rock, but at the time was The Second Temple - Jesus and disciples arrived to find it full of livestock and cattle traders and Money Changers (converting Roman denarri and Greek drachma into shekels).

    It's significant because a) it represents the power of religion over commerce, and b) because it fulfills a prophesy earlier in the Bible

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