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Years after my R.E. teacher said, “I will never fall lower than into God’s hands,” I finally came up with the retort, “Let’s go on the roof and check.”
Relevant Bible passage Matthew 19:21-22:
Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” But when the young man heard this statement, he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much property.
Your mistake comes in assuming christians have coherent beliefs. They largely believe what everyone else around them believes. In the US this means they are mostly captured by the grifters of society which are coincidentally the capitalists. Funny how that works.
For the rare exceptions you can point look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_socialism.
I am well-aware that Christianity isn’t self-consistent. This was luckily part of my religious education in school and my edition of the Bible even points out contradictions.
To be honest, the title is only there to feign a discussion, since I didn’t want to be too overtly anti-religious.
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R.E. as in the UU?
RE as in Religious education. I don’t know what “UU” means.
Yeah the Unitarian Universalists also use the term Religious Education for Sunday School.
Then I’ll try another attempt at my answer. “Religious education”, as I use the term, is the class you take from primary school all the way through to your graduation in High School, if your denomination is covered by the school you attend. It’s the default for baptized children in the German state I went to school in. If your denomination is not covered (or you just don’t want R.E.), you can attend a class called “Ethics.” You must attend either your Religious Education class or Ethics.
There are two type of Christians:
- Genuinely good people who actually follow the teachings of Christ and are left wing as fuck.
- Liberal fascists who use a bastardized version of Christianity to give themselves moral carte blanche.
So basically new testament vs old testament.
Aren’t people on the left generally not religious though?
If you’re taking about the internet La Rouchian “left” then yeah.
Depends on what their actual beliefs are. If they actually believe the stuff Jesus said, yeah, I think we really would be. If they cherry pick crazy shit out of books like Leviticus, no, they are clearly insane or just shitty.
Asceticism has never been much of a thing in Christianity.
Eh, it’s out there. By its nature, it’s not something that tends to make itself well known.
Pope Celestine V was just a guy living in a cave. The Papal elections were dragging out, and he sent a letter to the council saying divine vengeance would come down if they didn’t make a decision soon. So they elected him.
He sucked at the job, because pope’s need to know politics and administration just as much as religious matters. Living in a cave doesn’t prepare you for that. He’s one of the few pope’s who resigned.
Anyone who says that shit probably doesn’t have anything you want.
Christian here……my life was upside down until someone gave me this prayer on a small card to read. My life was a constant struggle and one night alone I just had it, and looked at this card and read it to myself, something about giving yourself to the Lord asking him to guide and help me. I put my full trust in God……and he’s never let me down. After reading the prayer things just started going my way for once. landed a great job, some money came my way and i was able to buy a home. I really don’t even worry about things anymore it’s like life on auto pilot lol. Be good to others and help those in need and you’ll be taken care of. At no point did I ever have to give all of my belongings away lol. Believe in God, because he believes in you!
