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Fuck Paul. Amen. Guy had some issues.

Yes.

It wasn't just people making money, it was that the money changers and the temple were working together to fleece the devout who were coming from far away to show their faith.

It's not like if somebody had a for-profit Cafe inside a church, it's more like the televangelist that use other peoples' devotion to get rich, saying you have to pay more and more to get into heaven.

Yeah, that's the money changers. He showed up and saw people doing financial trades in THE temple. It'd be like seeing a western union in the Vatican, though it may have been more extreme. Jesus made a whip by hand, busted in, and started flipping tables and chasing folks with the whip. It seems to be no coincidence that he was crucified pretty shortly after that particular stunt. Everyone in power was happy to roll their eyes and scoff until he touched the money.

Jesus was a communist and any Christian who believes the teachings of Jesus is a communist too.

It's a fuckin banger of a quote, but I regret to say that thanks to ADHD-fueled scourings of random internet rabbit holes instead of of doing college work, I've read that there's no evidence Gandhi actually said that.

Eh people overblow what Jesus did to the moneychangers and merchants in the temple. Yeah he made a whip and used it to drive the animals out, and he flipped over the tables scattering the money everywhere. But he never tried to to hurt people, just get them out of the temple and disrupt all the commerce going on.

Jesus Christ Superstar's temple scene is probably the most accurate recreation of that passage as written in the Bible. He trashed all the stuff, flipped tables and sent everyone else away. He wouldn't have beaten people to death, that's not the message he preached or the actions he took.

-Book of Lemmy 1:9:24

It's not that they were breaking the rules, it's that they were preying on vulnerable people.
If you want to talk about Jesus' relationship with rules, look at the people he chose to spend time with -- outcasts and social undesirables. Rulebreakers. Vulnerable people, people who didn't have the luxury of pondering where stealing bread lies morally when you're starving.
And look at his response to the question about which commandment was the most important: "If you thought it was about the rules, you missed the point".

He also flipped moneychangers tables. He basically sat while fuming, and braided a whip, and then showed the people the proper ending to a Monopoly game.

Same, dude.

It’s important to remember the actual teachings of Jesus in the Bible. These fuckers call themselves Christians but the fact is, most of them don’t know the first thing about what was written.

I’m not even sure he existed but I’ll be damned if I’m not going to spin that around. Especially once you get into the shit they left out of the Bible.

*looks left and right*

Yeah, fuck that guy!

Not Marie, but her dad.

Not Marine Le Pen, her far more racist dad.

I hate people who say shit like "if you're glad a nazi died, you're as bad as they are". Even something phrased in a more inflammatory manner, like "all Nazis must die" still wouldn't make me anything like them. The crux of the matter is that people like me, who the Nazis would prefer to be dead, will always be a target for their bigotry; I will always be a queer cripple. Whereas a Nazi can grow the hell up, recognise our shared humanity and stop being a bloody Nazi. Depending on how much harm they caused as a Nazi, it might take a fair bit of work to redeem themselves in the eyes of their community (and some people may never feel okay associating with them), but ultimately it's their choice — they're actively opting out of the social contract and they're welcome at any point to opt back in (if they're willing to do the work that involves)