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Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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For all their "christianity", republicans in the US are pretty hypocritical.

Jesus actually teached that everybody deserves to get fed and housed. That everybody deserves healthcare. That people should care for other people in their community. That is essentially the core principles of socialism.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

You can’t call every christian a rube and then make such a simplistic accusation about organized religion. Yes there are (major) flaws with organized religion, but surely you realize your statement is at best hyperbole and at worst moronic

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Dawg I ain’t saying organized religion is innocent. But it is false to claim that the sole purpose of religion is to control the masses. Your original comment was also just wrong like bruh, how can you claim that a figure like Jesus (the guy flipping tables in the marketplace, preaching ab how the poor are the most holy, saving the lepers, etc) was actually an evil psychopath who had a long game where he was going to fleece the poor of their wealth and threaten people with eternal damnation so they would follow him. That’s just some braindead conspiracy shit where you’re afraid everyone is out to get you. Grow up

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Whatever jesus the human did in the past is irrelevant. He is used as an icon to control people by those who built an organized cult around him.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why didn’t you start with that 😭 your original argument sounded so silly. Hell you could’ve said smtn interesting like how an originally innocuous scripture was co-opted for nefarious purposes but instead you just wanted to sound like an 8th grader who found r/atheism for the first time 💔

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The over 100 upvotes say otherwise…

    Religion is a cult that’s actively making the world a worse place.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    “The over 100 upvotes say otherwise”🤓 grow up lmao

    And buddy we literally agreed ab how scripture/prophets/religious ideas are often co-opted for power over a group of people.

    I’m just tryna let you know that your argument sounded stupid lol. Try using specific evidence for arguments next time.

    For example “religion is a cult…” is an awful start to an argument. 1) wtf is religion, that is a very broad term 2) the religion you’re mentioning is written in the singular, are you trying to say that all world religions are actually the same religion? 3) what about this (singular?) cult is actively making the world worse?

    Instead try saying something like “Zionist politicians purposely mislead their constituents through well chosen scripture in order to garner support for the genocide of thousands.”

    See how my statement was the effectively the same as your argument, but it uses more precise language and points to a specific modern day example.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don’t give a shit about your opinion. I’m not going to censor myself or use click bait sounding arguments.

    Religions are fucking cults, every last one of them and I’m done pretending they are not.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I’m not going to… use click bait sounding arguments

    religion is a cult that’s actively making the world a worse place

    So what you did there is contradict yourself.

    And considering that you keep responding to my comments and (poorly) defending your argument, you clearly care a lot about my opinion.

    You also really gotta clean up this thesis of yours. Besides the brutal and ignorant simplicity, you need to find a noun other than “cult.” I get what you’re trying to say, but by using cult in this manner you are essentially arguing that we need to change the definition of the word “cult” instead of remove all religion (which seems to be your goal).*

    *I’m not really going to expand more on what I mean by how you use the word “cult” cause it would require me to write a much more interesting essay than your poorly thought out idea.

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