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The Jesus who said this in the book of Matthew, chapter 19:
What a commie.
Of course, these days, Jesus is too much of a lib cuck for them, so they might not be the party of Jesus too much longer.
https://newrepublic.com/post/174950/christianity-today-editor-evangelicals-call-jesus-liberal-weak
Seriously, if I were Christian - and I have read enough of the Bible and christian philosophers that I could be if I wasn't a pretty convinced atheist - I'd genuinely think the evangelicals and a figure like Trump had to be the symbolical Antichrist with how they act and think
You'd be right too.
https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/
And that hasn't been updated since 2020.
Didn't know that article, but I did make the connections myself when I was re-reading the whole revelation stuff for fun a while back, it is quite funny
You might consider christian atheism to be a compelling philosophical outlook then, basically atheists who've rejected the mythos but still agree with the actual values Jesus espoused and the model of behavior other christian figures have lived in example of.
Those specific evangelical americans*
What he meant was that the goal in life is to ensure as many people as possible are poor. Republicans really are doing gods work! 🙏
There's also Ecclisiasticus 34:18-21 which basically calls the owner class knowing murderers and robbers trying to buy their way out of the consequences whenever they make charity out of their wealth.
A different transcription of that passage is what turned a conquistador into a Jesuit bishop who would refuse dying rights to landowners who wouldn't free their indigenous slaves. Dude wasn't perfect even after his revelation, but he still did a serious 180 when the meaning of that passage sunk in for him.