#cw classism
Few things lay bare America’s pretentions about class so clearly as the distinction between a “tiny house” and a “mobile home.”
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A new religious statue in the town of Davidson, N.C., is unlike anything you might see in church.
The statue depicts Jesus as a vagrant sleeping on a park bench. St. Alban’s Episcopal Church installed the homeless Jesus statue on its property in the middle of an upscale neighborhood filled with well-kept townhomes.
Jesus is huddled under a blanket with his face and hands obscured; only the crucifixion wounds on his uncovered feet give him away.
The reaction was immediate. Some loved it; some didn’t.
“One woman from the neighborhood actually called police the first time she drove by,” says David Boraks, editor of DavidsonNews.net. “She thought it was an actual homeless person.”
That’s right. Somebody called the cops on Jesus.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Since you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.
“Why are you in Hell?”
“I called the cops on Jesus.”Y'all if Jesus came back the evangelicals would be first in line to nail him back up.
I’m gonna be honest, I think this shines a light on a bigger issue which is that Christians are seemingly unable to grasp compassion without someone directly fitting a hypothetical Jesus into the equation
This isn’t a new thing; people have been doing it for ages, perhaps most prominently with WWJD (what would Jesus do?)
“what if it was Jesus who was homeless? How would you treat him?”
The fact that so many grown ass adult evangelicals can’t just look at a homeless person whose name they don’t even know and just innately understand, “this is a fellow human who is struggling to have their basic needs met and I would like to try and ease their struggle” without having to imagine this person is the son of god really says it all
Christians don’t care about suffering, they care about performing kindness in a way that they will be rewarded for in the afterlife
They don’t see Jesus and suddenly understand compassion, they see Jesus and have a learned mechanism in their brain go off telling them that if they help Jesus, it makes them more favorable and Christian and worthy of heaven, because modern evangelism has nothing to do with the teaching of Jesus’ gospel, but of idolizing him over all else - which is surprisingly counter to everything he teaches, regardless of if he’s the son of god or not. The result of neglecting the actual teachings of Christ and focusing so heavily on the rewards of Christianity is that you have more “fake” Christians than real ones
I’m writing this from the perspective of an ex Christian, so I don’t actually believe this stuff will really lead anywhere after death, but I know my stuff in regard to Christianity and I also have eyes and can see how horribly this kind of shitty doctrine is impacting the world at large. If people actually followed the teachings of Christ, regardless of if their religion was provably real or not, the world might actually be a better place for it
Alas
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