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ParanoidPorygon
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security person

concentrated wealth is the major public health issue of our time.

I try to only ever engage in good faith and I will assume the same of you.
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Still. We do still have some reputable news sources, and if an alleged picture comes up we can evaluate its provenance. Just be careful out there, we have a fucked up media environment
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
And for what it's worth: many liberatory movements and figures were explicitly inspired by the teachings of Jesus, from William Wilberforce to John Brown to MLK Jr. If Christianity were so clearly pro-slavery, I doubt that would have been the case.
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This probably goes without saying but the Bible also isn't exactly consistent in tone or explicit moral commands. That's why Jesus was depicted as such an iconoclast: his contemporaries thought that much of what he taught was heretical.
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'm struggling to think of any named early Christians that lived in close proximity to Christ that took or kept slaves, since that's the specific "commandment" you're calling out. The author of Ephesians (whose identity isn't certain) likely didn't interact directly with Jesus.
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
You're making my point for me. Christians, including early ones (we see this explicitly discussed in Acts), recognized that most of the commandments were either liturgical, situational, outdated, or very likely just dumb, so they stopped practicing them.
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Do any Christians actually follow Mosaic law? Don't know of any that still do sacrifices or refuse to shave their faces.
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I'm familiar with the verse in Ephesians that says that, but not anything that Christ said in the Gospels.
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM