(July 4, 2015 at 11:35 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(July 4, 2015 at 10:25 pm)Jenny A Wrote: No he was a communist pinko pacifist. He thought you should give everything to the poor. Catch a conservative republican doing that. Or turning the other cheek for that matter. The patriotic Christians just skip that part.Jesus never gave the poor anything. When he had the opportunity to do so he told his disciples that he needed it more than the poor did. So he kept it for himself.
He also said that he would toss people into the fire for not believing in him. So he comes across as a cheapskate meanie.
That is not quite true, as he supposedly fed the multitude with the bread and fish that he magically generated. But your point is well taken, in that there is also the story of the perfume or oil that was used on him. I guess Jesus liked to primp and preen.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
