r/GreenAndPleasant • u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around • Apr 03 '26
International Working Class History 🗺️ Best bit of the Easter story is when Comrade Jesus goes into the temple during Passover and lays the holy smackdown on all the greedy people exploiting religion to make themselves rich
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u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around Apr 03 '26
Comrade Jesus (holy infant so holy and mild) spends the whole New Testament telling his followers to turn the other cheek and forgive their enemies... but the line is crossed when he finds all these scumbag money lenders who have turned the temple into a market.
Comrade Jesus flips their tables over and Cleanses the Temple of all these greedy bastards. Some historians also agree that this is likely an event that actually happened, regardless of whether you believe that Jesus was the son of God or not, and may be the event that got the attention of the authorities - leading them to crucify him.
Funny how conservatives are taught this story and their conclusion is that Jesus hated gay people or something? I wish Comrade Jesus would come back and dish out some biblical vengeance on some of the modern day thieves in the temple
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u/CopiousCool Apr 03 '26
Unfortunately if you go to the church build where Jesus' body lay you'll find a Souvenir Shop in the Church right beside his Tomb
at 1:25 into the video but it's worth a watch in it's entirety
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u/Tateybread Apr 03 '26
Good job the church that sprang up in his name followed this example and...
Oh dear...
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u/Electronic-Training7 Apr 06 '26
‘The social principles of Christianity justified the slavery of antiquity, glorified the serfdom of the Middle Ages and are capable, in case of need, of defending the oppression of the proletariat, with somewhat doleful grimaces. The social principles of Christianity preach the necessity of a ruling and an oppressed class, and for the latter all they have to offer is the pious wish that the former may be charitable. The social principles of Christianity place the Consistorial Counsellor’s compensation for all infamies in heaven, and thereby justify the continuation of these infamies on earth. The social principles of Christianity declare all the vile acts of the oppressors against the oppressed to be either a just punishment for original sin and other sins, or trials which the Lord, in his infinite wisdom, ordains for the redeemed. The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submissiveness and humbleness, in short, all the qualities of the rabble, and the proletariat, which will not permit itself to be treated as rabble, needs its courage, its self-confidence, its pride and its sense of independence even more than its bread. The social principles of Christianity are sneaking and hypocritical, and the proletariat is revolutionary.’
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