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That's why 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck! All they have to do is invest the pennies they have left over! Crazy how a group of people that motherfucking huge aren't just pulling themselves up by their bootstraps!
I think the moral of that story is that you should at least make a bare minimum effort in order to justify your existence. The Parable of the Wedding feast has a very similar lean: there, a guy gets thrown out of the wedding (after having been invited for free because the original guests wouldn't come) because he wouldn't even dress up for it.
The point is, there ARE examples of Jesus cutting people off because they're not worth his continued investment in them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your point sounds like, "[The god of my religion] does not find your existence is worth enough to help, therefore, the United States Government is not obligated to change a system where 60% of it's citizens are not financially stable."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your point sounds like "the God of YOUR religion better not be telling the God of MY religion what to do."
Yes, you are wrong. When it comes to the USA, NO religion should dictate governmental decisions. Whether it is yours or somebody else's.
Right, which implies that the God of your religion is the state, because that’s who you want to give supreme authority to.
... No? Are you an idiot? Nothing should have supreme authority
How will disputes be settled then?
What?
I just want to point out that in the wedding illustration, that guy who gets thrown out it's not because he didn't put an effort dressing
He was thrown out because he he could not have got inside the building without the wedding garment
So he shouldn't be there
That's why they thrown him out
Because he was not recognized as being one of the invited AND chosen in any of the 3 rounds of invites that went out , the dude had to go.
The whole deal is basically telling people at the time that each rejected invitation made you part of his enemies, and even then if you tried to pass as if you had been invited and chosen, you'd be found out
Okay but it still roughly fits the situation in the OP, doesn't it? He got thrown out because he wasn't producing the expected result (i.e. being a proper wedding guest).
~~All guests were given the garment for free.~~
~~So maybe he thought his own garment was better than the one provided by the host, which it wasn't.~~
Where does it say that?
You're right, I must have misremembered that. I totally thought that it was explicitly stated in this parable.
I appreciate your honesty.
I honestly appreciate your appreciation to the other guy's honesty
Nah, it's because he wasn't even supposed to be there. He was not chosen
Okay, then perhaps the guy in the OPs meme wasn't chosen either
Probably, I don't understand the meme at all
The meme is attempting to caricature Conservative’s idea of Jesus by alleging that the biblical Jesus would never put profit over people. But as the parables I mentioned show, that is in fact inaccurate and thus promotes a liberal caricature of Jesus who feeds people endlessly without ever asking for anything in return.