Catholicism Options

[Spectatrix]

YOU DECIDE!

discuss.

This, in case you haven't guessed, was inspired by Lance's "fucking Christians" thread: http://www.techsans.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1173

[Erik B.]

i have a hard time swallowing a religion that bases it's self upon Jesus.


simply because until jesus arrived, offerings to God were not done in money. they were done in crops and live stock. when jesus came around is when it suddenly became neccessary to donate in hard cash. did jesus invent the currancy back then? no, it existed before him. so doesn't it seem odd that him and his posse suddenly change the offering system that had worked since the beginning of human society? ++corruption from the beginning++

Well, that's true if you completely ignore the temple tax that jews were required by law to pay in atomement for their sins.

Jesus threw the money changers out of the temple claiming they were turning the temple into a "den of thieves." Why? Because the only currency allowed to pay the temple tax was using the Shekel. The money changers would convert your foreign currency to Shekels for a fee.

You say that giving money started with Jesus? From Jewish law (which, in case you were curious, the Jews were around before Jesus):

Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto Yahweh (Ex. 31:12-14).

See, the Jews thought they had to pay money to be forgiven. Jesus took that away.