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"Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you."

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%205%3A1-6&version=NIV

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In plaintext form, for your convenience:

Q: WWJD?
A: (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Jesus: LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Going to be crazy when the NYPD bomb Jesus's house and kill his family in a SWAT raid.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I hear he has a history of problems with the state. he was literally crucified.

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Little known fact that Jesus was actually just three kids in a tunic

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] makyo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You haven't heard of the great five-in-one? Father, son, son, son, and holy spirit.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good thing there's not six...

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Stupid sexune deity...

[–] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I'm not mistaken, the original name in Aramaic translates to something like "Jesus Christman"

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I look forward to your Ted Talk.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

The problem is- Jesus didn't chase the people behind the money changers out of the temple with a whip, it was the low-level workers he attacked. While talking about, as you quote, how luxurious their lives were.

Jesus was doing the Batman thing- beating up on low-level criminals while leaving the real people in charge behind the scenes around.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

your gold is corroded

Must not be real gold. Those scammy, money lending bastards...

[–] hark@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Banks do manipulate precious metals prices through fake supply numbers. It's virtual, though, so hard to imagine corrosion there. Just corruption.

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[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Based and Christ-pilled

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

That looks like the panel from the 2008-2009 banking and FTC regulation reform.

[–] MilitantVegan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The scene in the temple is recently one of the central plot points of the new documentary, Christspiracy. The movie as a whole is a little over-sensationalized in framing their views as some kind of grand church cover-up. But some of their arguments about archeological evidence and scriptural translation differences make for interesting food for thought.

Basically they argue that the temple at that time was a big slaughterhouse, and that the "thieves" Jesus whipped could more accurately be translated as "murderers".

https://christspiracy.com/

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Better to upgrade to the jawbone of an ass.

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