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MrMobius

It's probably a coincidence but Jean-Marie Le Pen died today you know!

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Jesus would beat modern Christians to death with his bare hands. I guess that's why he's supposed to be wrathful when he returns.

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It wasn't just people making money, it was that the money changers and the temple were working together to fleece the devout who were coming from far away to show their faith.

It's not like if somebody had a for-profit Cafe inside a church, it's more like the televangelist that use other peoples' devotion to get rich, saying you have to pay more and more to get into heaven.

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Yeah. Sometimes the compassionate thing is to call out shitheads so the people they shit on don't have to feel so alone.

qevlarr

Bye Jean-Marie, you will not be missed

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it's more like the televangelist that use other peoples' devotion to get rich

Hey don't drag Kenneth copeland's good name. He needs a brand new jet so he can spread the word of God without associating with the demons in commercial flights.

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Not Marine Le Pen, her far more racist dad.

MeatPilot

I can't unsee two tiny eyes peeking over the sunglasses.

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Jean-Marie le Pen: Dies

The Internet:

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Slinky don't fall far from the previous step sometimes

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Eh people overblow what Jesus did to the moneychangers and merchants in the temple. Yeah he made a whip and used it to drive the animals out, and he flipped over the tables scattering the money everywhere. But he never tried to to hurt people, just get them out of the temple and disrupt all the commerce going on.

Jesus Christ Superstar's temple scene is probably the most accurate recreation of that passage as written in the Bible. He trashed all the stuff, flipped tables and sent everyone else away.

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While true, can you imagine Fox news' coverage of just such an action today? He might as well have [redacted] by the way those actions would be portrayed.

Cadenza

J'ai repris deux fois des frites ce soir, bye bye Jean-Marie, tu ne nous manqueras pas.

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She is just as racist as her dad. But not as dead yet.

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Ah

So she's having a shit day.

I can celebrate at that at, least

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remember kids, if you get upset when Nazis die, you're a Nazi sympathizer.

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She expelled her dad from the party for not toning down his rhetoric.

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That man looks like a demon wearing a human suit.

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The apostles are not completely fine with wealth either. Peter has the story with Hanniah and Sapphira, where god punishes greed and sharing everything in the early Jerusalem Christian community is the norm. Paul at least has a few being responsible with wealth statements like this one: 1 Timothy 6:17-19
17 Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
18 Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share.
19 In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.

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my disagreements with the Christian community at large are a big part (but not the only part) of why I'm no longer a Christian. The guy I read about and the guy they seem to be thinking of are two different people.

Same. I still remember the day that I basically paraphrased a Jesus quote in a discussion of current events with my family, and someone asked me if I was some kind of communist and multiple others piled on with no one coming to my defense.

Apparently, actually believing the shit they taught me makes me some kind of radical...