A school district and local prosecutors in Texas are refusing to drop charges against an 11-year-old who was held in solitary confinement.

Timothy Murray lost his father earlier this year and had been asking his principal for counseling when she called in the police

  • nixcamic@lemmy.world
    9·
    11 months ago

    Then you read the Bible and like almost all the references to the rich are negative and like where the heck do people even get this crap from.

    • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Hippie socialist Jesus > Supply-Side Republican/Conservative Jesus

      Any educated and intelligent person should see that the prosperity gospel is just greed promotion disguised as religious edicts.

      • TimmyDeanSausage @lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        I’ve run audio for maybe a dozen Prosperity gospel events over the course of my career… Those people are some of the scummiest people I’ve ever met in rl. The “preachers” usually have a group of thugs acting as security that will run interference for anyone that questions what they’re preaching. I’ve seen people get literally dragged out and then heard, after the fact, that the “security” team “taught them a lesson”. The crowd was shocked that someone was aggressively dragged out at “church” until the preacher spun the victim as someone with the devil in them, then everyone would be nodding their heads with a panicked look like “are we ok with this?.. I guess…”. Fucking surreal. Also, these people would try to dodge as many bills as they could. On several of the ones I did, the “church” stiffed the AV company I was working for on a $30k+ production.

    • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      Yeah I am actually really curious how they explain that, if anyone has a genuine answer.

      There is so much talk in the Bible about riches and wealth and being rewarded for being a good Christian but my memory serves that it’s referencing the holy spirit or rather the relationship with God is rewarding in and of itself and that the riches and all that is in the afterlife.

      And every time I recall it talking about wealth on earth it is vilified and you’re supposed to give it away. And of course there this famous quote

      And Jesus said unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, It is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Matthew 19:23-26

      Anyway yeah I’m curious how people can teach this aspect of the Bible with such a contradicting incorrect interpretation. I argue that it’s a contradicting book in itself all the time but wealth is not one I recall. We have hated the wealthy for millenia lol