Funny part is the Bible is clear on faith and politics always being separated. Jesus statements on taxes and being “no part of this world” show that Jesus intended his followers to be politically neutral.
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Yes you pay your taxes, because the law requires it. He wasn’t suggesting that you take part in politics which was the trap the Pharisees were setting as many Jews opposed the Roman occupation, it’s what eventually led to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70ce
I do see some of your point. He took flak for not rebelling violently against the Romans, which led to the event you mention. But I guess I'm going with the fact that he was still a revolutionary, and his methods became the basis for civil disobedience or non violent resistance.
Sci fi plus domestic horror? Now that's an interesting cross genre I never considered! I'ma go check out your profile because the only sci-fi marriage I'm familiar with is Miles and Keiko O'Brien!
You need to study your theology harder. Jesus called his followers to aspire to victory in heaven, not earth however that is not neutrality. And it certainly isn't want American evangelicals are doing.
Nah bro, I'm rooting for a snake staff. Water to blood? Boils maybe. Does Donnie count as a first born son even though he's older than death? Anyway, buying cookbooks for frog legs and stocking up on lambs blood jic.
Yes, this has been the worst thing that happened today. Not Trump deciding to sic the DOJ on the judges who try to mitigate tyranny. You are forgiven, my child. It's all good... Everything is good...
It protects the religious too. That's why the Quaker, William Penn, wrote it into the PA constitution. Quakers (Friends) were a persecuted sect. In England, church attendance was mandatory. The monarch was head of the Church since Henry VIII. Tithes were mandatory. It was a government tax.
Your mandatory tithe at mandatory church (The Church of England, and you had to go to the one where you lived) went to the Monarch. So dissenters like the Friends weren't paying the Crown. The separation clause protects us all! That's the point. (Penn's book was called No Cross, No Crown. Love him.)
Are you suggesting that I'm letting this happen or that I haven't read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich twenty times and am on #21? Because I am. And I know the playbook. I started reading it in 2016 and just kept re-reading it. It's important.
It was an act of condemnation for the authorities using - and manipulating - the teachings of the Old Testament as a means of social control for their own financial benefit.
The story is also used as a teaching example of how even a divine being, when in a human experience, could be enraged.
More than once, in the stories of the New Testament, Yeshua of Nazareth takes actions based on human reactions and emotions for which he later does penance and/or seeks forgiveness.
The stories of the New Testament are very specific about which human behaviours incite this anger in him.
Again, and again he has shown as being compassionate to the poor, to those who have been marginalized by the authorities who are abusing secular as well as theocratic power, and finding inherent human value in those who would be labelled as “sinners”.
… the sinning and ask for forgiveness, but it’s a stark difference in how the stories of the New Testament show him reacting to the abuse of power and influence for the purpose of acquiring and protecting wealth.
Those teachings very specifically denounce theocracy, focussing on faith
… and the connection of people directly to the divine, in their individual behaviour and in small groups/communities of faith.
The stories are certainly political in so far as they decry an abusive theocratic state, but the underlying direction is to keep faith and government separate.
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The story is also used as a teaching example of how even a divine being, when in a human experience, could be enraged.
The stories of the New Testament are very specific about which human behaviours incite this anger in him.
Yes, it comes with the caveat that they stop
Those teachings very specifically denounce theocracy, focussing on faith
The stories are certainly political in so far as they decry an abusive theocratic state, but the underlying direction is to keep faith and government separate.