• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
    332·
    1 year ago

    He wasn’t angry about capitalism, he was angry about sacrilege.

    I also have to point out, when libertarians say shit about trade, we always need to remind them that buying and selling things is not capitalism by itself.

    So, don’t be libertarian, even if just for this one scene.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    243·
    1 year ago

    Not exactly. Jesus didn’t mind regular merchants, though he’s pretty clear and consistent that a love of wealth is incompatible with a love of God. The deal with the temple is that they were basically selling God, selling salvation, and profiteering off of faith. IIRC, you couldn’t bring animals or offerings to the temple, you had to buy them there, their lambs, their doves, etc, because how can they make money if everyone just brings their stuff? It’s pretty telling that after years of doing his thing, Jesus finally gets merc’d just days after this happened. Thankfully, though, we all learned this lesson and never ever did anything like this ever again. =)

  • Call Me Mañana@lemmy.ml
    18·
    1 year ago

    JB JAMES Chapter 5

    5:1 Now an answer for the rich. Start crying, weep for the miseries that are coming to you.

    5:2 Your wealth is all rotting, your clothes are all eaten up by moths.

    5:3 All your gold and your silver are corroding away, and the same corrosion will be your own sentence, and eat into your body. It was a burning fire that you stored up as your treasure for the last days.

    5:4 Labourers mowed your fields, and you cheated them – listen to the wages that you kept back, calling out; realise that the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

    5:5 On earth you have had a life of comfort and luxury; in the time of slaughter you went on eating to your heart’s content.

    5:6 It was you who condemned the innocent and killed them; they offered you no resistance.

  • Rofunka@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Don’t forget about the fig tree he withered because he was hangry, but figs were out of season (Mark 11:12-21). This was on his way to flip tables and crack whips on the merchants.

  • soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Akchually(, edit : should have read the other comments before posting, they explained it better than i do in the following paragraph).
    I.m.h.o., the Christ criticized their lack of respect towards God, because if they were really faithful they wouldn’t care about personal wealth in comparison to the Almighty, once you start serving the power of finance instead of God then you stop serving God, you can’t have two masters.
    But “don’t do unto others what you wouldn’t want to be done unto you”, or prior to that “Thou shall not steal”, is already all that we need to condemn the parasitic practice of lucrative properties, they’ll gain money for “investing”, as if it was risky(, not in the case of interests, nor for rent, but if they want to take a risk with actions by selling them at a higher price, then don’t give them dividends that should belong to the workers, and/or eventually R&D and/or consumers), as well as salary differences, even companies with limited responsability have circumvented this concept of risk and, i mean, all the negative externalities should be enough to condemn the current application of neoliberalism(, not to say capitalism in general).
    We oppose capitalism because it’s immoral, if we’re right then believers should have our back(, since morals/virtues are their domain). Since they don’t it’s either a mistake on our part or a lack of communist (counter-)propaganda.