Jokes on you, they don't read the bible

SUDDENLY THE BIBLE REQUIRES TRANSLATION INTO TODAY'S CONTEXT AND TERMS HUH

These fuckers will scream the bible can't be wrong when it comes to judging others but the moment they realize Jesus asked them to do something for other people and not just scream at people who look different, now all of a suddenly, we need to define what the term "riches" mean and we have to take into account it's a 4000 year old work, etc. etc.

My favorite story from the bible is when Jesus storms into a temple and starts whipping the living shit out of everyone as they were counting gold and their riches. Jesus was a god damn socialist hero.

The bible is a woke rag!!!!

"Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you."

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%205%3A1-6&version=NIV

Rich people more than anything.

The ultimate reality is a lot of people die if the lower class doesn't look out for their own interests while the upper class just watches.

I think the class warfare is the only real ideological war and everyone else is 3 meals away from poverty and barely have a loaf of bread to spare.

The rich start the rest of humanity follows. Hold Oprah accountable.

And The Quran is super anti-banking. Most religions have been twisted away from their original meaning, to become tools of our oppressors.

So they justify not being socialist according to this verse by the word believers. They don’t want to share with non-believers or even believers of other denominations (they are also non-believers since they aren’t exactly the same). So they can be non-socialist and just tithe and think it’s fine

I find it funny how depending on the parts you pick, you can assemble almost any ideology. Jesus is amazingly 2 faced. One seconds he's teaching you the importance of treating people with kindness, even your enemies, that any person can forgive another's sins and then another second he's cursing a tree for not bearing fruit out of season or telling his followers kill the people that don't want Jesus to be their king.

Are we pretending that Christians actually read, understand, and follow the teachings of the Bible?

They only seem to weaponize whatever part fits their interests and ignore everything else.

They stretch whatever meaning is there to whatever they want it to say, and bludgeon people with it, verbally and legally.

I haven't read the whole thing or anything, but I'm pretty sure that there's like one passage that mentions anything remotely "gay", which, IIRC, says something to the effect of, a man should not lay with another man the way he lays with a woman. Which can mean all kinds of things, including that lesbians are cool, but men being gay isn't. That's just one way to take it. Another could be regarding jamming your dangly bits together, so docking is bad, but everything else is fine.

Then in later passages where the text pretty overtly forbids a thing (such as eating certain foods), or explicitly tells you to do something, such as help the needy, those things get completely ignored.

Modern Christianity is basically a mishmash of "fine, do whatever you want!" And cherry picking verses that should be followed, ignoring the rest.

You know christian "communism" is a thing right? Amy Coney Barret was raised in a Catholic Commune Cult. They love this shit. They say "we want to live like Jesus's disciples," and then set up their own patriarchal fiefdoms and don't pay taxes.

Socialism isn't when sharing. This won't even work to piss off a conservative who has half a brain and they would be just as correct in refuting it. Don't get me wrong, I love me some liberation gospel, but people should really study some socialist literature, preferably Marx/Engels.

Here's another one:

23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Matthew 19:23-24

~~The "eye of a needle" referenced here was a small opening in the city walls meant to reduce traffic for security. A camel piled up with goods would would have a difficult time passing through it.~~

For full context, check out Matthew 19:16-28: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2019&version=NIV

Edit: as others have pointed out, there isn't any good evidence about the "eye of a needle" metaphor. I heard this from my pastor at church when I was a kid and it sounds like he was mistaken. I wonder what else he got wrong...

Written decades after all eyewitnesses had died as pure propaganda. Luke/Acts was a response to Matthew v Mark war. Mark had vomited all over the James community, Matthew tried to redeem the James community a bit, Luke/Acts tries to put Pauline and James community on equal footing.

Now it's true Paul pushed for charity and tried for a semi-equality in his churches but how much he pushed or how much of that goal was "nice to have" is debatable. It's likely his letters were transcribed by slaves for example.

Basically this is a classic example of ancestor worship. With an added twist that the author was trying to win a political point or two.

They believe this, just their needs are higher than those who “don’t deserve it”

there are two types of religious people whom i will respect.

Extremely devout Christians. (they often do more good than negative) They'll spend a lot more time reading and practicing religious texts, than yelling about gay people or whatever.

and those who are what i like to refer to as "standing" religious. They identify as religious, but it's primarily for personal reasons. They generally don't practice religion outside of their personal experience in the world.

Suburban Christians are a fucking nightmare.