A bit of evangelical trivia, if you’re interested in the logical pretzels used by the people who want to take your rights away:
Mark 10:25: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
American evangelicals and followers of prosperity gospel ‘interpret’ the verse as not talking about an actual camel and a sewing needle but instead about some small gate is the wall around Jerusalem which was called the needle gate. It was so small that if you wanted to get a camel to fit through it, you had to first take off any packs and cargo it was carrying and reload it once you got inside.
However, that interpretation was only invented a millennia after Jesus said it, and there’s no historical evidence that such a gate has ever existed.
Don’t worry you won’t get cold feet in the other place.
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Nicely put.
You thought you were getting in???
Let’s call them MAGA Christians instead.
A bit of evangelical trivia, if you’re interested in the logical pretzels used by the people who want to take your rights away:
Mark 10:25: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
American evangelicals and followers of prosperity gospel ‘interpret’ the verse as not talking about an actual camel and a sewing needle but instead about some small gate is the wall around Jerusalem which was called the needle gate. It was so small that if you wanted to get a camel to fit through it, you had to first take off any packs and cargo it was carrying and reload it once you got inside.
However, that interpretation was only invented a millennia after Jesus said it, and there’s no historical evidence that such a gate has ever existed.
Don’t worry you won’t get cold feet in the other place.
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