• peto (he/him)@lemm.ee
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    13 days ago

    And lo, when he saw the moneylenders working out of the temple, he said: “see how the wealth of these men sometimes falls out of their bulging pockets, and look, they pay that man who carries their wealth enough to survive. I mean not to own a house, or to live comfortably without fear. But you know, he can rent one of their spare houses for just most of his pay, and if he is sick, they shall call to him and say ‘look, we really need you in tomorrow, you need to be a team player.’ They truly are the most righteous of men, for does not my father say: if I wanted the poor to be rich, I’d have given them gold?”