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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Prosperity gospel has been shitting on the red text of Christ for decades now.

Jesus hated wealth inequality. The only group he said would never enter heaven were the wealthy ("easier to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven", in other words, it isn't possible for the rich to enter heaven). Jesus also violently flipped tables and whipped the wealthy to drive them out of temples.

So conservative "Christians" abandoned the teachings of Christ many decades ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Jesus didn't talk about wealth inequality in that way, as far as wealth being bad. His point was that the wealthy tend to think they have it all and are in need of nothing. Mostly that the richer you are, the more you love money than God.

He wasn't just flipping tables and whipping wealthy people. They were at the temple making money off of selling animals to sacrifice for sins. They had made a business of selling indulgences basically, that was the issue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jesus didn’t talk about wealth inequality in that way, as far as wealth being bad.

He flat-out said, if you're rich in this life, you've had your reward already and you won't get into heaven.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Never mind, wealth IS bad. But that is because humans are bad.

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