zenosanalytic:

personsonable:

guzmas-beautifly:

lesbianhoneys:

guzmas-beautifly:

lesbianhoneys:

not to sound poor but like…….i hate rich people

Envy is a sin, sweetheart.

hey have you considered shutting up

Have you considered letting people be? Money is something that takes ages and tons of effort and work to get, ain’t my fault ya ain’t happy with whatever you’re doing. Sloth is a sin, too, by the way.

yeah, sure glad there are no major sins involving money and its glorification

1)”The Seven Deadly Sins” were just made up by some rando monk in, like, the 4th century. They’re headcanon and there’s nothing inherently more ~Biblical~ about them than any other interpretation of the text like, say, Arianism. They aren’t From “God” or anything.

2)Being born wealthy, which is how most rich people get rich, takes little effort on the birthee’s part. Certainly not enough to justify distribute resources and ordering society on its basis.

3)”Arbitrage” is the selling of a currency for a greater value than you purchased it. It’s money-changing, basically. What did Joshua(Jesus) think of that, again? It’s also, though, a good metaphor for capitalism in general, because essentially all relationships in capitalism can be described through the term and its mechanics.

For Instance: if the raw materials to make a burger cost $.50, employees are paid ~$.5 per burger(or the time it takes to make the burger) for their labor, and 
it is sold for $4, then profit per burger to the “owner” is $3.45, or ~700%(I think that’s right, I’m terrible at math though). So where does that change in value come from? Well, no person wants to eat raw meat, veggies, and grains; they want to eat a burger. Few people want to process those raw materials into a burger every time they feel like eating one, they just want to buy and eat a burger. Does the owner do any of this?

No, it is Laborers who do that processing, and the work to offer that burger for sale, and the work to maintain a reliable, safe, and clean place to find and buy that burger. The owner “makes” profit through the “arbitrage” of “buying” the burger at $.55 and selling it at $4, a “profit” the owner “creates” by using their control of wages to set them far below the value created by the labor those wages compensate. All the “owner” does is provide capital, which they wouldn’t have nearly as much of if they weren’t allowed to arbitrage away all the value created by Labor as their own personal “profit” in the first place, by “farming” the value-to-wages imbalance they create.

4)Storytime:

Just then, a man came up to Joshua and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?”

Joshua answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’

“All these I have kept,” said the young man. “What do I still lack?” 

Joshua told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell
your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in
heaven. Then come, follow Me.” 

When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth. 

Then Joshua said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

When the disciples heard this they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”

Joshua looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

“Look,” Peter replied, “we have left everything to follow You. What then will there be for us?”

Joshua said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal
of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who
have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve
tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.

5)So here’s a little bit of biblical exegesis for you. Why is it difficult for a rich person to enter heaven? The passage tells you: “when the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth”. Wealthy people have Stuff, they have to give it away to get into heaven, they physically have more work to do.

But there’s more to that. They are tied, emotionally and mentally, to that Stuff. They care about that Stuff.
The young man grieves the thought of losing that Stuff. They care more about that Stuff than they do their fellow humans(the young man is sorrowful at the prospect of giving his Stuff to the poor), and they care more about it than they do God(the young man is sorrowful about giving away his Stuff to gain a closer relationship with God).
The wealthy pursue and seek that Stuff, Rather than God. So that’s also what makes it difficult: they’ve got to stop caring more for all that Stuff they’ve got than they do God, and they’ve got to get all that Stuff out of the way of their relationship with God. You’ve got to leave Stuff –lands, names, families, etc– behind, with no desire for reward, to get good with God.

So what is God? Well, that’s a big question, but we can at least tell from this passage that God is that which wants you to help your poor fellows; to not kill them; to not take, or deprive them of, what is rightfully theirs; to not lie(and that includes to yourself); to duly honor those who nurtured, cared for, and educated you; to love yourself, and love your fellows just as much. If, for the sake of gaining more Stuff, you’re taking for yourself the fruits of your fellows’ labor to “make” more “Profit” for yourself by “decreasing costs”(as if those are seeds or machines, rather than people), then you’re loving Stuff more than God. Specifically, You’re coveting the fruits of their labor, you’re stealing their possessions, and you’re treating them without love, all for your love of Stuff. And, even if your wealth is not the product of such arbitrage, if you are hoarding it to yourself while your neighbors and community suffer from want, then you are clearly not treating your neighbors with the love you are treating yourself with. These are yet more reasons why it is hard for rich people to get into heaven: wealth, in itself, is the product of injustice; of either taking from others what is theirs by right, or of denying aid to those in need, or of loving yourself more than others. That makes it the product of rejecting God’s commandments. God asks that you abandon and expunged this injustice –giving to the poor is a loving act, but it is also a Just one in that it gives away what was taken unjustly and creates balance(the essence of justice) by moving property from those who have too much to those who have too little– if you want to enter heaven. In other words to do these things, to follow God’s commandments, is to come to God.

6)Which one could say leads to a potential partial answer for the question “what is God?” as Joshua says, “with God all things are possible”; if, through doing Justice, it is possible to be saved, an impossibility for mortals on their own, and, through God, it is possible to do the impossible, then one can at least suggest that God is, in part, Justice.