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Originally Posted by FatherSioux
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Nice massive broad stroke. You need to investigate religious stories more if you hold this belief. The Bible alone is one of the more deep and complex books out there. The ideas it covers and the way it covers them is truly magnificent. It shows a deep understanding of human nature that is astounding when you consider it's origins.
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True, if only Christians acted in a way that aligned with their own book.
“For whoever exalts himself will be humbled by God, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted by God.” Matthew 23:12
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."" Matthew 19:24
One of Jesus' last acts before the shitstorm rained down on him was to expel the money-changers and merchants from the Jewish temple because he and his disciples felt their commerce and usury were antithetical to piety. In fact this is a core message of Christianity, and why that type of usury was outlawed (even if, at times, only in law, not in practice) throughout the Christian world for the next 1.5 thousand years. Jesus loved the poor. American conservatives hate the poor.
So you can imagine how it looks to an outsider when you have modern Christians who read Ayn Rand and subscribe to capitalism in its most wicked form. Note, there is nothing inherently wrong with capitalism as long as it is underlaid by certain values. Modern American capitalism resembles Chinese capitalism nowadays more than the Protestant ethic.