Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 day agoNot to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate?message-squaremessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1149arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1138arrow-down1message-squareNot to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square57fedilinkfile-text
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·22 hours agoThey weren’t priests collecting for the church. They were loan sharks operating out of the church.
minus-squareHobbitFoot @thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 hours agoYep. Jesus didn’t have a problem with raising funds for the church, he had an issue with the church being used as a forum for private financial business.
They weren’t priests collecting for the church.
They were loan sharks operating out of the church.
Yep. Jesus didn’t have a problem with raising funds for the church, he had an issue with the church being used as a forum for private financial business.