Why Haven't You Accepted the Teachings of the Sermon on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j-BGCy9aPU

>>2167347
Hmmmm, *opens link*

let us check this out

Well it's not really a series of moral commandments he was teaching people (such as things they should be doing). He was mostly telling the sick and poor that god would reimburse them for their shitty lives, either when the kingdom of god arrives in this world, or failing that, in the afterlife.

The only two moral commands in the beatitudes are to "be a peacemaker" and "show mercy". Add one or two more if you wish to count "desiring righteousness" and "being persecuted for righteousness".

He wasn't telling people to be poor and sick.

>>2167367
>Well it's not really a series of moral commandments he was teaching people (such as things they should be doing). He was mostly telling the sick and poor that god would reimburse them for their shitty lives, either when the kingdom of god arrives in this world, or failing that, in the afterlife.


WRONG.

THANKS FOR NOT GETTING IT, PLEB.

>>2167369
Well, I guess you refuted me.

Well done.

>>2167371
APOLOGIES BUT YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THE SELECTION OF POOR AND SICK IS SPECIFIC, IT HAS A PURPOSE, IT IS NOT SIMPLY A MEANS BY WHICH TO GAIN FOLLOWERS.

>>2167382
Well I wasn't trying to say that if I did.

But saying one shouldn't abuse the poor and weak because god has a special place for them in his heart, is no guarantee that people will cease to do those things. It may give people a new respect for the lowest of humanity, if such an idea of respecting the vulnerable never occurred to them before; but people can easily interpret that as a mere endorsement of the status quo.

Besides, Jesus already covered that by pleading for people to "show mercy".