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I wonder how quickly one would cage and kill the other? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

You forgot my favorite parable, The Cleansing of the Temple:

And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise. John 2:15-16

Jesus whipping money lenders will always make me chuckle.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Right here folks. Jesus hates capitalists. Be like Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Money changers. Not money lenders.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Glad to know table flipping is timeless.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't about money changers, it was about the people selling animal sacrifices. The money changers just enabled them.

This is more explicitly laid out in Mark where it prohibits carrying anything through the temple.

That gets conveniently left out in Matthew where he copies from it as there's a bit of a theological paradox if it's Jesus's death that makes animal sacrifices pointless and he's telling people to stop killing animals to cleanse their sins while still alive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It gets even more juicy if you learn the context at the time. It was about loans. Jesus wiped the debt records. Jesus;DROP TABLE HIGH_INTEREST_LOANS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It wasn't about loans. It was about animal sacrifices.

There is discussion of forgiving debts elsewhere, particularly in apocrypha, but the temple episode was about the sacrifices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Mr Robot is Jesus 2.0 confirmed