I read a book recently (I think the title was “Termination Shock”) where right wing people in the US had a weird christian religion that portrayed Jesus as “weak” or “woke”.
It was passover - when many people made a pilgrimage to what is now the Dome of the Rock, but at the time was The Second Temple - Jesus and disciples arrived to find it full of livestock and cattle traders and Money Changers (converting Roman denarri and Greek drachma into shekels).
It’s significant because a) it represents the power of religion over commerce, and b) because it fulfills a prophesy earlier in the Bible
Jesus was a pussy for caring about people.
MAGA literally thinks empathy is a negative human trait.
I read a book recently (I think the title was “Termination Shock”) where right wing people in the US had a weird christian religion that portrayed Jesus as “weak” or “woke”.
I saw a post on Reddit saying that Jesus was not a pacifist.
Jesus was not a pacifist in any way.
Please note that He promised to return at the head of an angel army, and they butcher everybody.
The resulting lake of blood will be miles wide and “as deep as a horse’s bridle”
That’s not pacifist, that’s fucking metal
(source: Bible, skip to the end)
It’s the bible. There are parts of it where he probably isn’t. That’s the beauty of the bible. You just gotta find that one verse to pander your views
Well he DID flip a table and whip a bunch of people this one time. That’s not very pacifist of him.
What were those people doing
It was passover - when many people made a pilgrimage to what is now the Dome of the Rock, but at the time was The Second Temple - Jesus and disciples arrived to find it full of livestock and cattle traders and Money Changers (converting Roman denarri and Greek drachma into shekels).
It’s significant because a) it represents the power of religion over commerce, and b) because it fulfills a prophesy earlier in the Bible
They had set up a (kind of) market inside of a church
Selling stuff in a church or something? I don’t remember, but he didn’t supposedly deal with it in a very pacifist manner.