(March 3, 2020 at 5:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: the Beatles were not (and never claimed to be) anti-materialistic.
Just as priests, pastors, gurus, and swamis were also never anti-materialistic. Sure, they say to their sheep that material things don't matter while they themselves ride in new and frequently expensive cars, live in palaces, etc.
Or just as Christan movies preach materialism. For instance in "Saving Christmas" we learn that Christmas must be about materialism because Jesus had a body made of matter, or that presents under the Christmas Tree are there to represent the city of Bethlehem built by God
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
