I can't believe this is a real article. Just wow.

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• shaquilleoatmeal@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He looks like a supervillain.

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• Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Running off of their own logic here - tech bros and bullshit jobs were largely not a thing in Bible times, so we should abandon AI and Facebook.

  Finanacial fuckery was heavily frowned upon by their main guy, to the point he flipped tables over it. Let’s eliminate all debt interest too, since that’s usury and a sin.

  Rich people are going to hell, so let’s redistribute wealth and prioritize the poor, the sick, women and children. Y’know, to give the billionaires a chance at heaven.

  They’re also pretty strictly told to stay tf out of government as well, since it’s not their world to inhabit and their inheritance is in the next life. So no theocracy, because that goes against their teachings. Stay within your churches and be relentlessly kind to your neighbors. Anyone who claims to be a “God-fearing, Bible following” Christian should step down from politics immediately.

  Did I miss anything?

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  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m actually doing a readthrough now and there’s a LOT of different stuff, a lot of contradictory stuff, and a lot of dudes that have some serious incel level hangups (looking at you two, ezekiel and paul) but then there’s just some bits that absolutely go hard (like the whipping you mentioned, or the times the pharisees be saying stuff about how the religious laws are this or that and jesus goes oooooofffffff ✨🫰✨🫰✨🫰✨

    but the two things that are actually super consistent are a) do not work on the sabbath b) rich people are fundamentally evil, both with various ways of being said and various punishments up to and including death

    there are a few people described as generally successful but it’s usually more in terms of owning / leading a people as a clan / tribe than it is in terms of having money specifically. Like it’ll describe the number of servants in the household, their tents, the herds, etc.

    The only person described positively who has “wealth” in the more modern sense is Solomon, and it’s explicitly stated that this was given to him because the one thing he asked god for before anything else was the wisdom to be a good leader, and that the wealth he had was a result of using that wisdom.

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    • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Job: am I a joke to you?
      (God: Well akshually…)

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If Americans want to mold themselves in Jesus’ image of Christian perfection, the rich men in the world have to give to the poor, aka eat the rich.

  Matthew Chapter 19, verses 21 to 24

  Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me." When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth. Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The American Right-Wing Christians don’t seem to care for Jesus - they appear to pretty much ignore everything in the New Testament because it’s “lefty and woke”. They do seem to like the Old Testament bits where you kill/enslave/rape/rob people who are weaker or slightly different from you.

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    • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Oh, they like Jesus well enough to be huge fans of his “get out of jail free” card that comes with believing in him. That way, the most evil people in the world believe that they can get away with it in the afterlife, using this “one simple trick“.

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  • MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    be careful with this one because the types of people this applies to will just twist its meaning into “Poor people need to own less. Minimum wage is too high”.

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    • Geobloke@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I heard this preached at church a few weeks ago, the gist of it was, that Jesus knew how important being rich was to the man and until he let go of that, he could never let Love fully into his life

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They twisted “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” which was an example of expecting the poor to do the impossible into blaming the poor. They will twist literally everything, so there is no reason to be careful.

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• jenni007@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only in America.

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• Naich@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He looks like a Jerry Anderson puppet of a criminal megalomaniac.

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• 843563115848z@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nothing on Fox news is a real news article.

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• rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  foxnews.com/…/god-bible-were-right-work-schedule-…

  Holy fucking shit America

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Actually the reason most cultures used a seven day week is found in nature.

    There are five planets visible in the night sky, plus the Moon and the Sun.

    youtu.be/JZG1pp1K1QQ

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      7 days is also about a quarter of a lunar cycle, which makes more sense than the number os celestial bodies.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Everything is based on nature

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To capitalists, humans are nothing but tools to enrich themselves. That’s why it’s called “Human Resources”. To them, you are literally nothing more: A resource to be exploited, like fruit from a fruit tree. They squeeze out the lemon to sell the juice and then throw the dry shell of the fruit to the composter.

  What many rich people have is sociopathy, which means an absence of empathy and understanding for what it means to be human. We must remember to be human, whether you name that “socialism” or just better laws that are made for the people.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are rich people in every economy type. It’s not just capitalism.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yeah, i agree, there are assholes everywhere. capitalism has just formalized and streamlined how-to-be-an-asshole.

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• OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s 11 5-hour days a week. How tf am I supposed to do that??

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• tartarin@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Man is not made to work, the proof: it tires him out.

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• Kurious84@eviltoast.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh coming from those controlling everyone. Eff you!!

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• NotAGamer@lemmy.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is no God. It’s a delusion and sign of mental illness.

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• NickwithaC@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That man has a gun poking him in the back making him say this.

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  • breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not necessary. They pay him a lot of money for saying it.

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• loomy@lemy.lol ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i like how his eyes are crossed

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• TTH4P@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have this orange-ass blazer, but no accounting for taste on that tie…yeesh

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