Fun fact - in both apocrypha and multiple gospels, Jesus is all like “don’t carry a purse with you when ministering and just accept food and shelter when offered.”
You can see attitudes against this prosperity BS in some of the earliest Christian documents, where in 1 Cor 9 Paul is arguing against preexisting attitudes in the Christian community in Corinth about whether he has a right to collect money for his ministering.
You even see in Paul’s letters that he gets personally gifted a fragrant offering, which must’ve caused a bit of controversy as decades later in the gospels there’s a part where Jesus gets personally gifted a fragrant offering and gets pissed at people saying he should sell it and give the money to the poor.
That part about “carry no purse and no money” gets explicitly reversed at the Last Supper in Luke. But curiously, it’s not present in Marcion’s version which was probably the earliest version of the text.
It’s pretty wild that you had Paul - who called himself lawless, performed signs and wonders, was constantly swearing he wasn’t lying, was a false prophet of apocalypse, and inserted himself into the center of the church - straight up representing positions exactly opposite widely alleged positions of Jesus’s, and yet so many don’t even blink an eye at their blind faith in the guy while frantically looking everywhere around them for “the antichrist” that’s supposedly going to lead them astray.
That said, I have little doubt that Paul would be extremely pleased with the conmen that followed in his footsteps and the profits they raked in under his name.
And why not say (as some people slander us by saying that we say), “Let us do evil so that good may come”?
Jesus will not return. Fuck he has been on welfare for 2024 years. Why would the man return from retirement if he can live life as the richest person ever existed in a paradise that they told us all about /s
Largest land owner in Florida I believe was the LDS. Near 690,000 acres and because they are a church, no taxes. The standard suburban home in Florida used to sit on a 1/4 acre lot. The median property tax is $2,338 a year. That would mean the LDS would be paying ~6.4 billion dollars a year in taxes if that were owned by the common family. Just making them pay taxes would make them sell off a bunch to get some of the costs back. Imagine half of that going up for space to build houses at low prices because they all the sudden fed the area for 2.7 million houses into the market.
Oops, house prices may fall, and a bunch of money just got fed into the government to build infrastructure for it.
If you unironically watch this person, you deserve to be taken for all your money. You don’t have to give the ghoul on television money to make Jesus appear, you absolute twits.
It’s a complicated situation with lots and lots of factors. Old people who are losing their ability to reason properly are one of their targets. The truth is, people like this guy should be under the microscope of government. His finances first and foremost need to be scrutinized but when half of US based Christianity is following the Prosperity Gospel, it’s not going to change.
We have to get our election participation to at least 50% before any meaningful changes. Conservatives win by just making up shit and making people vote against their own best interest. The good is definitely fighting a difficult battle…
Ah yes jesus has to pay rent to stay in heaven amd its inflation up there or does it cost a lot to travel between heaven and earth anyways help the guy out people
Look, he has a big inheritance, and all that, but it’s all tied up in legal fees, see. But one day soon? He’ll become the rightful king and stuff, but I. The meantime, he really needs the 500 social security check.
And if you refuse you and your kids and grandkids are going to hell.
But don’t worry, soon as he gets enough he’ll make you rich!
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