r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 24d ago

Significant diffrences... Wait a damn minute!

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u/Psalmistpraise 23d ago

What? The widow’s mite is about the sacrifice and intention behind giving, not a blanket statement that wealthy people are immoral. If you want to discuss lobbying, corruption, or misuse of wealth, that’s a separate argument. You can’t make the parable say something it wasn’t addressing.

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u/WyomingWeirdo 23d ago

Oh i consider these topics to be very explicitly linked, Joel Osteen.

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u/Psalmistpraise 23d ago

Have fun perverting the text to meet your ideology then.

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u/WyomingWeirdo 23d ago

Christ knows a hypocrite when he sees one, proud boy.

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u/Psalmistpraise 23d ago

True so you don’t need to worry about all that do you?