I found some quotes in the Bible that I thought were pretty radical to the contemporary mindset. It 
seems convenient how so many Christians just believe the stuff in the Bible that reinforces their own egos.
Mainstream Christianity loves money and power, Joel Osteen and his ilk are obvious examples. Osteen himself is said to be worth around 100 mill and I don’t think he’s ever uttered a wise word. However there’s no getting around that Christ and different parts of the Bible weren’t really that cool with avarice. In fact no source of wisdom I have ever seen openly promotes hoarding or wallowing in hedonistic materialism, especially when it’s done at the expense of others, and wealth always is gained through forms of oppression. It simply takes a lot of intentional ignorance to justify extreme wealth.
The below compilation of cautionary passages in the Bible speaks to pertinent values in our own times around the problems with greed, monetary systems and capitalism. And a side note, I get that western academics like to tout that capitalism is a recent invention but the foundations of what is wrong with a market and monetary system are universal in time. Capitalism is just a term used to make it seem like something new is happening when it’s the same ole game being played that’s just been rebranded. Centralized social hierarchies keep going back to old tricks, doing the same awful things just with newly applied euphemistic language applied in each iteration. Lipstick on a pig is an apt description here.
So let’s get to it, God commandeth from high and said to the children “Get over this money bullshit.” – A direct quote from god. Here’s more translations:
Proverbs 22:16
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Proverbs 22:9
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Proverbs 22:8
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Proverbs 22:7
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Commentary:
Here the Bible states what most already intrinsically know, debt = slavery. When the rich control resources and dole them out at unaffordable prices so a loan must be taken out with added interest, it smells of a con. They can in fact simply share what they are not using, but instead they choose to make people work for it, creating a servant to master relationship.
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Commentary: Maybe all the Christian hospitals in the US should read the bible. The entire medical industry needs to understand you can’t treat people and profiteer at the same time. They’re not sincerely helping patients if there is always a profit motive in the background. For instance that hospital food they serve you at a premium cost is garbage, and that’s the tip of the iceberg.
Matthew 19:24
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
Commentary: Probably the most blunt line of the bunch. Despite if one believes in a place that’s the kingdom of god, what one has to do to become rich and sustain that lifestyle over the years is to ignore the harm they are causing to others while only thinking of themselves. It’s a low vibe state to be sure.
Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs
Matthew 21:12-13
Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.”
Commentary: This well known passage is great with subtext saying that authentic connection to a higher plane and capitalist ventures are incompatible.
Thessalonians 4:11-12
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
Commentary: While we obviously must work together to live generally speaking, the idea we are dependent upon foreign countries is obnoxious. And the fact we financially prey upon people put under working conditions we would not accept ourselves is even more obnoxious. Further, there’s a quiet nobility to producing something of value for others with work, whereas what is the value of stock market investors on Wall Street? Absolutely nuthin’.
