Current Events > Why does the bible make poor people seem so great?

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Comfortable people don't need faith.

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Joseph of Aramathea, the man that buried Jesus Christ's body, was a wealthy man

You trying to say they aren't?

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gbagcn posted...

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Do you have an example of how the bible makes poor people seem so great?

Also, there's a religion board:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/263-religion

because being happy with the least amount of things is the same thing as being happy with everything


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Jesus was poor and crashed at his friends places. Didnt pay rent but could attract an audience

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The purpose is to keep poor people complacent for the benefit of their rich overlords. Telling a poor person that their suffering is a test of faith keeps them content with suffering. Telling them that the poor will be rewarded and rich punished in an afterlife keeps them content with being poor.

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Its a great tool for converting others because there will always be more poor people than rich people.

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And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said:
Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets."

-- Luke 6:20-23 ESV

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They're gonna inherit the earth someday.

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To make the masses feel better about their lot in life so that they'd be easier to convert and retain

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What's not great about poor people, TC? Tell us what's really on your mind. Don't pussyfoot :3

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Because Jesus loves the poor and downtrodden.

In pagan Rome, the poor were looked at with scorn and assumed that they had angered the gods somehow and deserved to be in that state.

RustyFerret posted...
Because Jesus loves the poor and downtrodden.

In pagan Rome, the poor were looked at with scorn and assumed that they had angered the gods somehow and deserved to be in that state.

Yeah, OG Christianity was explicitly a Messianic reaction to the occupation of and (relative) impoverishment of Israel and Judah(Palestine). Jesus' followers were primarily the dregs of society: workmen like farmers and fishermen, tax collectors(they were 1000% worse back then), prostitutes, etc. It protested Roman oppression as well as the complicity of the Jewish elites, particularly the clergy. Jesus literally tells a rich man that he must abandon his possessions to follow him("it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" and no, that wasn't a metaphor), he tells his apostles the old woman throwing her last copper into the collection plate is vastly more generous and worthy than the rich man throwing in multiple gold coins, and is enraged by the presence of money lenders in/around a temple.
Jesus basically went around telling the oppressed and downtrodden that they were the best people and that the elites sucked, which is how he wound up on a cross. Perhaps he even suggested that something should be done about it in the here and now....

It wasn't until Constantine that the religion became co-opted into a means of social and political control, and even then, it did put increased moral constraints on rulers, particularly in Western Europe where the Church was influential and independent.

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