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[–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Some dude named John who took a lot of magic mushrooms or something said that Jesus was going to come back and butcher everybody. Jesus did not say that. The book of Revelation is most likely about Nero and the destruction of Rome. There's some interesting biblical scholarship about it and I think that part is more interesting than the actual book

    That's not to say Jesus didn't say some metal things

    Matthew 10:34-36 NRSVUE [34] “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace but a sword. [35] For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, [36] and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.

    Matthew 12:34 NRSVUE You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    Do you even know what the messiah was supposed to do? (Neither did the authors of the gospels, but we won’t get into that.)

    It wasn’t wanking off in the clouds.

    Mathew 10:34- “I did not come to bring peace, but the sword”

    Mathew 24, Jesus is returning on the clouds (because god’s palace is at the top of the dome shell in the sky,) with an army of angels in which every person is going to be judged and sorted an some forced to glaze him for all eternity and the rest relieved to burn in hellfire for eternity.

    Totally a pacifist!

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