Ricki Yasha TarrMar 20, 2024
It still gets me the Bible Jesus is a homeless socialist with brown skin, hangs out with 12 dudes and a Prostitute, tells rich people to pay their taxes and give their wealth to the poor, tells the religious leaders that they need to love everyone equally, gets a whip and goes hog on people using religion to sell stuff, and then straight up gets murdered for these beliefs. Yet somehow churches act like he's some kind of Conservative Haircut in khakis and a button up, who would support cutting welfare programs, and would preach Prosperity Gospel.
Show threadMadopal
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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"
Bible Scholars: "Ok, technically there was a city gate that was called "the eye of the needle" and it was an arduous process to kneel the camel and get it into the city."
Conservatives:
Mar 20, 2024 at 3:31pmWeb
Show threadarceuthobiumMar 20, 2024
@madopal @RickiTarr those “bible scholars” sound suspiciously like televangelists
Show threadMadopalMar 20, 2024

@theothersimo @RickiTarr No, that was legit. It probably wasn't literal, but it was still meant to say "you're going to have a hard time getting in if you're rich." Of course, can be taken as an escape valve for "Jesus is cool if I'm rich."

Funny how we don't think any translation could ever mangle idioms.

Show threadMartijn VosMar 20, 2024

@madopal @RickiTarr

Do Bible scholars say that? I've heard there's no evidence at all of that gate interpretation. Although he might have been talking about a thick cable, the kind you use to moor big ships, which of course still doesn't fit a needle, but with both yarn and cable being rope-like, the comparison might make a bit more sense.

Anyway, it's not about chance; they still have to do all the other things he says, which includes helping poor, sick and foreign people.