"✊ Good Revolutionary Friday ✊
Jesus was executed by the Roman state not because he preached kindness and love in the abstract, but because he embodied a radical threat to the status quo. He overturned tables in the temple—an act of direct action against economic injustice. He called out religious leaders for siding with power. He preached good news to the poor, liberation to the captives, and gave hope to the masses living under occupation.
I disagree with this guy on his common assumption that all forms of Marxism are totalitarian. First of all, capitalism is totalitarian in its lack of alternative and destruction of any that arise. It compels our participation in that regard.
Capitalism only promises evermore toil and misery, and it diminishes thought to convince us this is good. Personally, I think Jesus aligns with Marxists in his concern for the poor and oppressed. For too long, conservatives dominate Christian theory.
Just like the totalitarian nature of capitalism, they stomp out any "heresy" that dare deviate from their orthodoxy. Who needs a council to determine right-thought when one can simply have a personal relationship with the Christ? I think people take great pains to separate communalism from Jesus, but its his very nature. How absurd!
He shared and healed for free, and he grew to anger at markets in the temple. Yet you tell me the church favors capitalism. Haha
Jimmer