Invest your own money, let compound effect be your leverage, and avoid debt like the plague.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 9
Every now and then, I repost some of his writings. Here, his is merely one of many comments on someone else’s substack. His comment is interesting, but the entire comment thread is also interesting….
What lands for me here is the tension between the dangerous Jesus of history and the domesticated Jesus institutions keep manufacturing to stabilize power.
Because once empire gets hold of a prophet, the first thing it does is remove the sharp edges. The man flipping tables in the Temple somehow becomes the mascot for tax cuts, luxury branding, and “please do not disturb the existing order.”
At the same time, I’m cautious about drawing too hard a line between Jesus and Christ, because mystical and cosmic understandings of Christ existed very early and were not just Constantine’s PR department working overtime. The real issue is not whether Christ-language exists. It is whether that language transforms people or anesthetizes them.
A religion that never threatens greed, domination, cruelty, or empire is probably not following the Galilean very closely.https://substack.com/@virginmonkboy/note/c-2605345...
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A religion that never threatens greed, domination, cruelty, or empire is probably not following the Galilean very closely.
So Jesus the a-hole? I'm sure that Trump and Hegseth would approve.
No. of Recommendations: 7
A religion that never threatens greed, domination, cruelty, or empire is probably not following the Galilean very closely.
So Jesus the a-hole? I'm sure that Trump and Hegseth would approve.
Jesus challenges the greed, domination, cruelty and empire building of Trump and Hegseth.
That’s why Hegseth and Trump rarely quote Jesus directly.
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A religion that never threatens greed, domination, cruelty, or empire is probably not following the Galilean very closely.
Jesus challenges the greed, domination, cruelty and empire building of Trump and Hegseth.
Wow, did I ever misread that! I was sure it was talking about religion threatening by means of greed, domination, cruelty, etc.!
No. of Recommendations: 4
Wow, did I ever misread that! I was sure it was talking about religion threatening by means of greed, domination, cruelty, etc.!
Some religion does just that.
But as VMB says…… when it does, it has pretty much inverted the message of the Galilean it claims to follow.
No. of Recommendations: 4
I recommend John Fugelsang's Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds.
