Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoConservatives can't handle The Satanic Temple's harmless display in Iowa's Capitolwww.friendlyatheist.comexternal-linkmessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1642arrow-down110
arrow-up1632arrow-down1external-linkConservatives can't handle The Satanic Temple's harmless display in Iowa's Capitolwww.friendlyatheist.comLanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square80fedilink
minus-squareJohnvanjim@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·edit-210 months ago“It is more difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, than a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.” I don’t know, seems vague…
minus-squarePlasticExistence@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·10 months agoYeah, like they don’t say how big the camel is - or the needle!
minus-squareI Cast FistlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·10 months agoIt’s a metaphor, a parable, because the wealthy can buy a really big needle, see! It’s difficult because they have to ask for a custom made needle
minus-squarePlasticExistence@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 months agoThose poor, misunderstood wealthy people!
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·10 months agoThe needle was a side door in a city wall. The source for this is up my ass.
“It is more difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, than a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.”
I don’t know, seems vague…
Yeah, like they don’t say how big the camel is - or the needle!
It’s a metaphor, a parable, because the wealthy can buy a really big needle, see! It’s difficult because they have to ask for a custom made needle
Those poor, misunderstood wealthy people!
The needle was a side door in a city wall. The source for this is up my ass.