Jesus in canon was only violent one time and it was against the merchant class. In some translations they were merely set up outside the temple not even in it. He also called for a new Jubilee, which is cyclic debt forgiveness holiday.
Capitalism is anti christian and has been from the beginning.
Although he is credited with the modern phrase, a version of Marx’s “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” can be found in the New Testament.
³² And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. ³³ And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. ³⁴ Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, ³⁵ And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
– Book of Acts
It’s baffling how anyone could call themself a christian and also be against feeding people
While we’re at it, he wasn’t a fan of public displays if faith either
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.
Not as baffling as this- https://newrepublic.com/post/174950/christianity-today-editor-evangelicals-call-jesus-liberal-weak
They clearly don’t believe in Jesus. At this point they are just pretending to be Christians and destroying it from within, at least in the US. American-style Christianity still hasn’t spread everywhere, yet.
They believe in the Jesus their pastor tells them about. They don’t read the Bible.
But I’m not going to call them fake Christians. That’s a ‘no true Scotsman.’ They worship Christ, so they are Christians. It doesn’t matter that they don’t worship the Jesus of the Bible. The Jesus of the Bible was fictional anyway.
Today’s “Christians” are absolutely KILLING Christianity because the kids see the dishonesty, blasphemy and hypocrisy - most young people want nothing to do with it, except those who see a free lunch in it.
Honestly, I was down with Christianity until college. I’m not Catholic, but I attended a Catholic University. I was raised Lutheran.
College was a really good experience for me. I got a good education, made friends, and had fun. I still have good feelings about the school.
However, the hypocrisy of the conservative Catholic leaders of the university, and their cowardice in the face of a calm discussion of issues, led me to see that the Christianity I was taught to believe, while overwhelmingly positive, was not lived by most people who claimed to be Christian.
Edit: that was about 33 years ago.
Weak move you should have started your own church adhering to the original Christian values and started a holy war.
As I became an adult, it became clear to me that it was just an excuse for my narcissistic parents to not have to take responsibility for their actions.
“I’ll have to answer to God when I die.”
How convenient. So you’ll never answer to those of us you wronged.
I’m not sure you’ve paid attention to such parts of its history as pornocracy, trade in indulgence papers, reformation wars, slave bibles with parts about slavery not being Christian censored out, church support for Hitler and Stalin, today’s Vatican having best relationships with genocidal dictatorships (ones destroying Christian heritage at that), need I go on?
EDIT: That was about “today’s”.
Having said all that, being resilient to rotten authority and fighting against that is too part of Christianity as a religion.
I heard this kind of started happening in the 1940’s or so, but then there was a big resurgence of religion for some reason in the 50’s. I can only imagine where we’d be if that didn’t happen.
imo, it’s the theatrics that bring people in the coughcultcough.
buuut this formula works:
less food in school => low performance in school => less educated => more “faith” => easily swayed by “faith” people
i am brought up by generations of teachers so i tend to value education somewhat.
But JEEEESUS said “capitalism is good”.
“Why should I pay for poor kids’ food? Jesus wouldn’t like that.” /s