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(81,220 posts)And YES, I'm SHOUTING!
You NEVER, EVER hear any of these sanctimonious assholes recite ANYTHING, not a word, about - or from - The Beatitudes.
And...
You NEVER, EVER hear any of these shove-the-Bible-down-everybody's-throats folks refer to Jesus's encounter with the rich young man - "sell all that you have and give it to the poor, and follow Me."
From Wikipedia:
Yeshua and the rich young man (also called Jesus and the rich ruler) is an episode in the life of Jesus in the New Testament that deals with eternal life[1][2] and the World to Come.[3] It appears in the Gospel of Matthew 19:1630, the Gospel of Mark 10:1731 and the Gospel of Luke 18:1830. It relates to the Evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience.
In Matthew, a rich young man asks Jesus what actions bring eternal life. First Jesus advises the man to obey the commandments. When the man responds that he already observes them, and asks what else he can do, Jesus adds:
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.[4]
Luke has a similar episode and states that:
When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth. Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God / Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_and_the_rich_young_man
Those "Bible-thumpers" NEVER mention this, while they're all extremely busy either implying or stating flat-out that "God wants YOU to be RICH!"