Message auto-removed

[calimary]

41. Yeah. I tried a little of that yesterday at the March for Science. Among friendlies.

We were discussing EXACTLY this.

And I posed the question: has ANY ONE of them, even ONE, EVER quoted to you the story of Jesus and the rich young man?

Resoundingly, everybody in our little group shook his/her head in the negative. Of course we hadn't. Because these so-called "Christians" don't do it. They haven't, EVER. They're the ones behind the "prosperity 'gospel'", "GAWD wants YOU to be RICH!!!!!"

Well, there's no such legitimate thing as the "prosperity gospel." Jesus was a POOR GUY. Jesus didn't own a home. He didn't even rent one. Everything we're taught about Him says He was homeless. Surviving on friends, cousins, followers, and fans. He was nomadic - walking His way from one end of Biblical-era Israel to another. Staying with friends, preaching in town squares - not some fancy offices or edifice. We're taught He wore a garment hand-woven by His mother - nothing he bought or had made or fitted. He didn't have much - except, literally, for the clothes on His back.

AND "worse," He hung out with the riffraff. Those people the "better" classes walked by without even looking at them. The sick, the outcast, people with leprosy, men with "bad" reputations, women with "bad" reputations, guys who collected taxes - whom we were taught were reviled by others in "polite society".

When the rich young man asked how he could join up, as you've pointed out, paleotn, indeed Jesus told him to sell everything he owned, give the proceeds to the poor, and come follow Him. How the story ended: the rich young ma went away. With sadness. Sad.

Any of these apostates
əˈpäˌstāt,əˈpästət/
noun
1.
a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
synonyms: dissenter, defector, deserter, traitor, backslider, turncoat;
nonconformist;
schismatic;
archaicheretic;
rarerecusant, recreant, tergiversator
"after 50 years as an apostate, he returned to the faith"

adjective
1.
abandoning a religious or political belief or principle.

... who REALLY believed in Jesus and followed HIS teachings (or tried to follow His teachings, or revered HIS teachings as they all claim they do) would not hesitate to bring up that story at multiple opportunities. When they're interviewed, when they do their pass-the-plate TV "evangelism", or when they pontificate in the media - spoken or written, make their speeches and/or write their books.

They'd also repeatedly remind about the message of Matthew 25: 35-45 - the one about "whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do to Me."

They'd also quote widely, loudly, and enthusiastically from The Beatitudes - wherein you will NOT find anything about "blessed are the greedy," or "blessed are the bullies," or "blessed are the warmakers."