James 5:1-6
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.[a] You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
They don’t read the Bible.
They will cherrypick a few passages that are unique to the KJV.
You know, the specifically pro-monarchy version of the bible.
Yeah, I’m not American and English isn’t my first language.
Because of this I was never aware of how many English translations of the bible there are. I also don’t understand how anyone would want to stick to a translation as old and outdated as the KJV when we have multiple more modern and likely more accurate translations available today.
Yet SOMEHOW these American conservatives swear by the KJV and refuse to accept that other translations are likely more accurate and better to use.
Some even believe the KJV is the only perfect translation apparently. No other translation is allowed or even considered. I saw a video of a pastor saying that the KJV fixes the source texts. Wtf kinda logic is that?
Sorry for the rant. Feel free to ignore it.
Don’t apologize, you’re spot on.
To put it simply, the don’t like the teachings of Jesus. What they want is a metaphysical justification for oppressing other people. It’s a tool of the privileged and the powerful - the very ones Jesus spoke out against. :)
And even if they did, modern Christians just handwave away as meaningless anything in the Old Testament they can’t justify because it’s been “fulfilled by Jesus”.
Christian here.
Yikes.
I know people like those you describe. They are pieces of shit who wear the Christian label and don’t actually follow any of the teachings.
Please don’t lump us all in with them.
Apparently neither do libs. They NEVER talk about the rampant heresy of fascists. They’re perfectly content with equating religion to MAGA.
Oh I went to episcopal school and got tested on my knowledge of the Bible.
Yes the entire maga movement is a massive violation of the First Commandment, right down to venerating golden idols.
But Christianity is what Christians do.
When Quakers became abolitionists in defiance of the clear instructions of the Bible that slavery is a good thing, should be preserved, and that slaves should be grateful, they are being Christians.
When (some) Presbyterians allow women to lead church services, in defiance of the clear instructions of the Bible, they are being Christians.
And when the overwhelming majority of American Christians wholeheartedly support maga, they are also being Christian.
As a Jewish person, Israelis could also learn a lot from this
Conservatives love to ignore that the Bible is actually pretty woke.
My in laws are extremely religious and comservative and biggoted. This year at easter, my wife volunteered to pray. She had a bunch of verses like the one in this post and just ripped them through bible teachings that theyre dicks. It was awesome
The bible is a fragmented mess of retranslations and secondary source material. Leviticus also has the verse about homosexuality that these idiots love to point to too.
It’s definitely just a mess of contradictions. I wouldn’t say “woke”. Jesus was pretty woke throughout. Though some gospels more than others.
Except the old testament, God constantly wants pepple to sacrifie their kids, stone people to death, etc. He’s not a nice dude.
There’s lots of woke stuff in the OT too. The above passage is from the OT. Entire chapters are dedicated to describing an economic system where capital can only be gained temporarily, then it reverts to the original owners’ family in Jubilee years. AFAIK it was never actually implemented though.
According to the bible, while living on the promised land, until they demanded God a king, so they could be like the other nations, during the Judges book, they were effectively a stateless society organized by families and cities. Land had no rulers. Only during that time the system you recall was fully in place. After that time, they kept doing some things, but the system effectively transitioned to a monarchy. God’s words to Samuel (the contemporary judge they didn’t want) are indeed hard: “they haven’t rejected you, they rejected me”.
Finally, god himself gets down here and starts an organization. The primitive church was an anarchist community, you don’t get more woke than that.
Yup, god is woke. Also an anarchist, clearly against hierarchy and other pyramid schemes like capitalism.
Some english names or expression might be wrong, I haven’t looked at english bible for a while.
According to the old testament who aside from Abraham was demanded to sacrifice his kids? Also God spared the son of Abraham and gifted them meat instead. As for capital punishment that exists, but only in cases of severe and proven crimes.
Yeah, doesn’t that sound insane to you? Hey, sacrifice your kid for me… ope, just kidding bro, here’s some meat for being an obedient little bitch.
Jephthah. Judges 10:30-40.
Guy returns from war after vowing to God that if he made him victorious he would “sacrifice to him the first to greet him upon his arrival home” or something like that.
God doesn’t directly ask it. But his daughter comes to greet him first. And well God doesn’t stop it.
It’s obviously all nonsense. There isn’t a god to judge as being good or evil. This is a story about some delusion guy that murdered his daughter after winning a battle. But still.
The bible is filled with blood sacrifice stories like this.
leviticus 19:35
Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity
Oh man the US is really fucked
