Florencia (she/her)Oct 17

Heartbroken to learn the Pope sympathizes with the poor đź’”

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/33196811

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Show threadWoodScientistOct 17

Rich people go to Hell. You don’t get to go to Heaven if you’re a billionaire. Sorry. But if you hoard enough wealth to live a thousand lifetimes, then you have received your reward.

So many Christians just can’t accept that Jesus was a poor person that believed rich people all go to Hell.

Show threadFuglyDuckOct 18

So many Christians just can’t accept that Jesus was a poor person that believed rich people all go to Hell.

  • jesus was never actually anticapitalist.
  • most of his closest followers were in fact successful businessmen and/or rich.
  • he convinced all those business men to give him their money.

    • The rich guy who stalked off? he saw him for what he was: a scam artist.

    Show threaddonalonzo

    To claim that Jesus was either capitalist or anticapitalist is anachronistic to the point of absurdity.

    Capitalism isn’t just “free markets”, it’s a set of institutions and norms that really only make sense in a modern setting, with centralised states, and very specific forms of absolute property rights and contractual obligations.

    Jesus, however, claimed rich people could not enter heaven. Rich people can exist outside capitalism.

    Oct 18 at 6:23pmWeb
    Show threadFuglyDuckOct 19

    Not really saying he was capitalist, but he certainly wasn’t anti-capitalist.

    Mostly he was taking people’s cash and running. Miracles didn’t happened in his hometown because they all knew he was full of shit.