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[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

A challenge to private property, which the Romans had invented as a legal category in the late second century BCE. At one point, Jesus tells his disciples, ‘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’.

Actually this upholds private property. The Eye of the Needle was a small gate in Jerusalem that camels had to be coaxed through slowly and carefully, meaning that it's difficult but not impossible for a rich person to get into Heavasdofiaeropgjaerogjiaseroj sus-torment