Quote Originally Posted by Suppressed Poet View Post
If you must know, as I can tell your genuine about religious study…. The statement about the difficulty of the rich to enter Heaven is because it’s a sin to worship false idols. If you are wealthy and have many worldly possessions there exists a strong temptation to put your own will ahead of God’s. That verse was not in any way saying that rich people are inherently immoral.

Also by any standard of measure today, we are all wildly rich compared to even Tiberius Caesar Augustus of his time.

Also also this is why we have priests, religious scholars, and Sunday school…so some jackasses on the PC don’t come up with their own twisted misinterpretation of scripture and spread heresy.
You know, you're right if you ignore the entirety of the rest of the Bible calling for us to be charitable and treat our fellow man with love and dignity. But since you're wanting to parse words about idoltry, why is it you choose to parse your savior's words as being an inference to idol worship instead of a plaintext reading? You can read the translations upside down and sideways for the next three weeks and the words still say the same thing.

Let's not forget our Bakkers, Falwells, Karesh, Jeff, LeBaron, Raniere and countless priests still diddling children to this day. Religious scholars are no less viable of jackassness than you or I, but unlike the above murderers, rapists, polygamists and extortionists, I don't use my faith to hurt others.