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[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 14 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

I can’t find any sources for this now, but a while back I read an article that basically said in the 1500s (roughly) people were starting to turn against the rich holding the bulk of the wealth. So the rich met up with some priests over a tankard of mead and came up with the idea that the church should say the rich deserved their wealth.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

That is weird to me because Jesus repeatedly condemned the rich. He even violently kicked them out of temples by whipping them and flipping tables. Jesus even said the wealthy will never enter into heaven. Jesus was essentially a proto-communist

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree. I look at it this way…how many of those that claim to be Christian actually have Christian values or live by the Ten Commandments?

...how many [...] actually have Christian values...

All of them, it's how you know what "Christian values" really are (not just the cleaned-up public-facing image they use for marketing) and it turns out they're pretty shit.

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