Political Memes

Seriously, if I were Christian - and I have read enough of the Bible and christian philosophers that I could be if I wasn't a pretty convinced atheist - I'd genuinely think the evangelicals and a figure like Trump had to be the symbolical Antichrist with how they act and think

What he meant was that the goal in life is to ensure as many people as possible are poor. Republicans really are doing gods work! 🙏

There's also Ecclisiasticus 34:18-21 which basically calls the owner class knowing murderers and robbers trying to buy their way out of the consequences whenever they make charity out of their wealth.

Whosoever makes donations out of goods they have gotten immorally, their charity is absurdity; their gifts are a mockery of generosity.

The heavens detest charity given by bloody hands; no amount n'or value given by such serves to appease the highest.

Whosoever takes for giving what little fills the stores of the disfortuned, they do the same as one who kills a child before their parents' eyes.

The bread of the disfortuned is their lifeblood, and whosoever defrauds the disfortuned of it, their hands run red with that blood, the same as any murderer or brute of different means.

A different transcription of that passage is what turned a conquistador into a Jesuit bishop who would refuse dying rights to landowners who wouldn't free their indigenous slaves. Dude wasn't perfect even after his revelation, but he still did a serious 180 when the meaning of that passage sunk in for him.