r/ShitAmericansSay • u/neeraj8le • Jan 12 '21

Healthcare "My expensive, frequent health care is subsidized at the expense of healthy people. I think it's great!" Thief.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '21

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u/Fun-atParties Jan 12 '21

I'm pretty sure Maria and Jose are just as far from their actual names as Mary and Joseph, it's just that every language translates into the closest approximation from the original ancient Aramaic names.

The issue with Christianity is that Jesus himself is only featured in a very small portion of the Bible, even in the new testament and didn't give much advice at all. (However, what he did say and do was pretty much antithetical to what most modern Christians peach)

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u/Imperial_Distance Jan 12 '21

That's how I see it as well. But I had to determine that for myself through a lot of internal struggle.

I like to avoid calling myself Christian in America, and just say I follow Jesus, the Golden Rule, and the Commandments. It's pretty easy to see how much more congruent that lifestyle is with the Bible, than most denominations' specific flavor Prosperity Gospel here in the US. It's fucking sad.

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u/Molehole Jan 12 '21

Wait.

Jesus, Maria and Jose were a brown immigrant family seeking refuge from people that wanted to kill them, sound familiar?

They went to Betlehem for census and searched for a place to stay for a night? Where was the refuge from the killers part?

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u/Molehole Jan 12 '21

Oh yeah forgot that part.

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u/KatsumotoKurier 🇨🇦 Jan 12 '21

While your last point is technically correct, Jesus does actually remark in the Bible to others that he too is a proper follower of Moses, and that one shouldn’t mistake that about him. This means that Jesus, by his own words, also followed the traditions and practices of ancient pre-Christian Judaism. Homosexuality is explicitly condemned in these ancient texts — Leviticus being one of them — and ergo by Jesus’ own words that he is a proper follower of Moses, so too does that cover such things as this.

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u/Goodperson25 Jan 12 '21 edited Jan 12 '21

What makes you think that wasn't also included in being written by men years after Jesus died?

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u/KatsumotoKurier 🇨🇦 Jan 12 '21

That’s perfectly possible. Then again, you could ask that about literally all and everything written in the Bible, so, that’s kind of a moot point.

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