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(13,461 posts)Then what value did Jesus put on money? He certainly didn't judge people's value by it, and he was compassion incarnate, literally if you are a Christian, figuratively if not. What was that like about a camel having more of a chance getting through the eye of a needle than a rich man getting to heaven? Something like that, I've never been a Church goer.
By declaring that your work toward a more compassionate society is without value, he is actually saying that the original basis for his own professed religion is also without value. How can someone be a Christian on one hand and say that the basis for their own religion has zero value????? He can't even have linear thoughts!
Money is mostly gained in a capitalist extreme society like ours, through harm to others. This is not valuable. Christian conservatives despise compassion until it is needed by themselves or their loved ones. They don't like higher ed until their kid goes to college and gets loans, they don't like government assistance of any kind until a natural disaster destroys their home or town. They tend to be trying to justify their own intense selfishness in whatever way possible.
These people would rather listen to someone with the moral history of Rush Limbaugh than read about Jesus; because Limbaugh gives them permission to say they are the truest kind of Christian without practicing any of their own religious beliefs.