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That's because "the rich hoarding cash" isn't causing income and wealth inequality.
Also, income and wealth inequality is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. Income and wealth equality would be far, far worse than what we have now, even as corrupt as it is.
Effecting income and wealth equality necessitates violating people's rights to associate freely, trade freely, and own property. That will lead to complete societal collapse, and rather immediately. Nobody would do hard, dirty, or dangerous jobs anymore. We wouldn't have electricity. We wouldn't have indoor plumbing. We wouldn't have medicine.
Absolutely braindead take.
I love seeing Christians defend capitalism.
Leviticus 25:35 'Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him'
Matthew 19:24 'Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.'
Proverbs 31:9 'Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.'
2 Corinthians 8:13-14 'For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness.'
Luke 3:11 And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
Jesus was a brown socialist.
Jesus was not a socialist, and literally nobody who accepts Him as their savior has ever given 1/3 of a shit what color He is.
Jesus predates Socialist values, they just happen to overlap so many times that it's colloquial shorthand
The New Testament as a whole espouses a kind of 'primitive communism' that has roots in the society of Ancient Israelite tribes. Very social capital, gift economy kind of behavior. I mean, look at the tale of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts.