Lennon or Lenin?

[Traitorfish]

It's a command to reject money as ungoldly and perhaps even blasphemous; how is it anything but communist?

 

[Borachio]

I thought it was a command to keep money in circulation. And a recognition that no one owns money except the issuer of it.

 

[Traitorfish]

That seems hard to reconcile with Jesus' otherwise consistent position that God > some dickhead in a toga.

 

[Borachio]

I don't quite follow. I thought the idea was simply no man can serve two masters. You have to choose between God and Mammon. I don't get the idea that Jesus thought Caesar was in any way to be despised.

 

[Flying Pig]

That seems hard to reconcile with Jesus' otherwise consistent position that God > some dickhead in a toga.

TF, I'm not sure you've quite understood that one: yes, Jesus said that moral laws trumped temporal ones, but he also said that we ought to defer to temporal authority and simply do what we believe to be right without creating conflict. It's a fundamentally un-Christian thing to go looking for trouble.

 

[Borachio]

If a man in authority asks you to go a mile with him, go two.