Unless that man is lending money interest free, it would be pretty damn close to literal blasphemy.
It's Heresy (Blam) under every major theological branch of Christianity, From TradCath to Quaker to Latter Day Saints.
Bible doesn't exactly have kind words for people that try to make up original content to add to it
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Revelation 22:18, KJV translation
Considering that there isn't any instance of Jesus doing anything close to this in the Bible....
It bears repeating again and again:
American evangelical Protestant Christianity does not worship the Christian God or Christ. It is a paganism that worships Mammon in the guise of America in the guise of God.
it's all demiurge shit. "people" not endowed with the divine spark of Sophia and thusly cursed to never leave this flawed realm created by a madman
lmao thinking you could do free market capitalism under the boot heel of the Roman Empire these people smoke crack for breakfast.
Protestantism was a mistake. Bring back the inquisition please. (Quakers/Congregationalists/etc. are generally okay.)
IMO criticizing the Church is cool and good and some Protestant branches are broadly okay, e.g., the New England Puritans became mild liberals... after their witch-killing/genociding/Christmas-is-too-pagan/fun-is-sin period, and there are some other Protestant churches which are basically enlightenment deists/pantheists.
But many of "the core ideals" of Protestantism were shit. Martin Luther declared the right to interpret the Bible for yourself - but then encouraged the princes to suppress Anabaptists and other peasants who took their interpretations beyond his own (the latter were all over the place, from ultraconservative to anarchist). Calvinism is just Fuck You, God Gave Me Mine. Anglicanism is Catholicism, but with the King instead of the Pope and no monasteries.
In broad strokes, I'm with Max Weber - Protestantism is Capitalist Christianity. It swept away some feudal backwardness, which is good, but it made money-making moral and made poverty sin. Without universalism, it promotes individualistic, solipsistic morality, moral indifference towards the suffering of other humans. It is the ideological justification of Capitalism.
Is there a reason why Scotland is relatively "left" liberal today in spite of Calvinism? I feel like that would make for an interesting history.
High Church Anglicanism is Catholicism that wants to fuck the Queen. Low Church (this last few decades) are Evangelical Mega-churches that want to fuck the queen
core ideals
it took like 10 years for prots to start trying full-on theocracy and prosecuting religious deviants, caths ain't great but there was never a pure protestant dream that got corrupted either. people who care enough about religion to kill people over it tend to be less tolerant types
you don't want to get into a corpse-measuring contest. both are bad as fuck and both fucked up indigenous people.
saying it’s more prone to violence
ain't trying to. fact remains that protestants were just as capable of colonial projects and just as capable of prosecuting religious violence in europe.
personally I really hate Martin Luther specifically so if it seems like I'm singling prots out it might be a bit of personal bias peeking out
, in the case of religions that actually existed during the medieval period in the west, probably statistically untrue.
beep beep "enlightenment" BS detected. Dig up Voltaire and scatter the remains
Yeah, Catholic Church needed to work through so many bad takes. Unfortunately Luther and Calvin were probably not the best choices to bring them to task.
Hussites were pretty based though, college of Bishops at Constanze have a lot to answer for with his murder.
Sure, skip my sermon on the mount. Just like you skipped out on buying Amazon stock, and Google, and Apple.
-Jesus, probably.
James 5 1-6, New International(e) Version
"1 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 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. 4 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. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.[a] 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you."
this art style is so fucking ugly are they using these billions from the Cock brothers for hookers and drugs?
Wild that they they thought it'd be okay to just make up scenarios where Jesus behaves in a way directly opposite to the way he does in all the actual scenarios in the bible.
pissing and farting my pants in the corner because of the sjw's
Also, why are these ancient middle easterners white, why does one have a neckbeard that goes all the way to his chest and why would he hire a homeless dude he's never met when he could hire someone who is more presentable and has 5 years sales experience?
I have so many questions
