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[Anonymous No.55780408]

>“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Matthew 7:6

[Anonymous No.55780473]

>>55780408
It's very prejudicial to think of people as "dogs" and "pigs".

[Anonymous No.55781870]

>>55780473
How so?

[Anonymous No.55781957]

>>55781870
Assume it wasn't meant as a compliment by someone who holds dogs and pigs in very high regard. Basically gatekeeping, the sort of thing that you tend to find in Matthew, whose author was likely extremely pissed at all those foreigners coming in.

[Anonymous No.55782334]

>>55781957
Sounds like a wise man

[Anonymous No.55782349]

>do not throw your pearls to pigs
>cast not your pearls before swine

[Anonymous No.55782380]

>>55782334
In that instance, it would have been Greeks and other citizens of the Roman Empire listening to Jewish teachings, which the conservatives would've denounced, probably saying things like "teaching the goyim is like throwing pearls to pigs".

[Anonymous No.55782418]

>>55780408
The pearls in question:
>buy LINK
Lmfao

[Anonymous No.55782514]

>>55782380
What are you even talking about nigga
>>55782418
He gets it

[Anonymous No.55782550]

>>55782514
Who else but some angry conservative would've seethed enough write in an angry statement about teaching "those foreign pigs our wisdom"? This is the kind of thing some xenophobic inhabitant of Judaea would have written if he had seen his countryman getting too pally with "pagans", as historically happened.

[Anonymous No.55782592]

>>55782550
This is the dumbest take I've read in a while but I'm going to keep giving you (Yous) because it amuses me. Go on.

[Anonymous No.55782718]

>>55782592
What's dumb about it?

[Anonymous No.55782850]

https://youtu.be/rvKTXPQuPvs
Be still and know that I am.

[Anonymous No.55782897]

wisdom

[Anonymous No.55783215]

>>55780473
>prejudicial
Made up modern pejorative that has no basis in morality.
>>55782380
Why don't you read it for yourself then you wouldn't have to pull "probably"s out of your ass.

[Anonymous No.55783256]

>>55782718
You haven't even read Mathew.
>When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
>And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
>But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

[Anonymous No.55783469]

>>55783256
In all fairness: you are right.
I should not have said "the author of Matthew"; I don't know how wrote Matthew and with what intent, and based on what data.
However, the saying itself could have been popular enough to find its way into the final text of the Matthew, and having originally reflected xenophobic sentiment among the Jewish population against "those foreigners coming in, and you even talking to them! Giving them your pearls!! To these pigs!!!"
You could imagine some Tucker Carlson type character having yelled it at some "liberal hooligan". And, in the story, if as a minor element, Jesus does hang out with elements seen as undesirable, like "tax collectors" and "prostitutes". Had his attitude been to see them as "undesirables", he would hardly have spent time with them. Thus it stands to reason that it wasn't, and thus, he would not have said something like that, and meant it in the popularly understood sense of "other people are shit".
The was a lot in the way of interchange of ideas, but one can indeed imagine some "establishment" like the Pharisees, as well as conservatively-minded people in general, not wanting (no offense) "those Greek homos" around. I also somewhat doubt that the historical Pharisees would have, for instance, told a miraculously healed man to "stop working on the Sabbath" by carrying his mat. Ok, maybe if that one was a particular busybody asshole, he would've made the remark, but he would not then seriously have confronted Jesus about the supposed "violation". He might have, perhaps, challenged him with Torah-based riddles to test this miracle-healer (they had no X-Box back then), but he would not have seen miracle-healing as a crime.
More importantly, the entire parable is exactly the kind of instructive story that the Pharisees loved to tell, and its point would have been exactly the same too.
If people hated the Pharisees for anything, it probably was for offering some Aeasop's Fable 15 fucking times a day.

[Anonymous No.55784305]

>>55783469
He's talking to a roman centurion in the passage I quoted you idiot. Again why are you writing all this shit about a 70~ page book you've never even read?

[Anonymous No.55784333]

Pigs were the quintessential unclean animal and were closely associated with the Gentile communities in the region which kept them in large numbers. Pearls were a luxury of extreme value.

Gentile neo nazis in this thread think that they aren't the pigs mentioned here

[Anonymous No.55784347]

Dogs are more sacred than semites

[Anonymous No.55784482]

>>55783469
The problem is people need to have an enemy to feel good about themselves, Jesus found solace in undesirables because they were always working on trying to become better.
Heal themselves, be good to others in small communities etc.

They were actually desirable to him, much in the sense I do the same, I tend to find people who are down, having mental issues, existential crises, trauma, despair.

I find no interest in those who have no cracks in their foundation because they have evaded the blows of life.

Eventually when it cracks and they need repair they will eventually become desirable.

Buddha taught the same thing, he walked from the murderer who carried a string of ears who had the intention of murdering the Buddha.

As he chased the buddha he calmly walked away, chasing as fast as he could he could never catch the man, eventually stopping and confronting him, realizing the power that stood within him from pure bliss and good intention.

Immediately he stopped murdering and although reviled throughout communities was the Buddhas most loyal student.

[Anonymous No.55784490]

>>55784482
https://youtu.be/B2E1CFcnBag

[Anonymous No.55785538]

>>55784305
>why are you writing all this
I make observations.

[Anonymous No.55785851]

>>55785538
I appreciate your observations.

[Anonymous No.55786822]

>>55784482
Yes I have read Matthew. And I believe he is right. If you have ever traveled or done business in a pagan land, you would know how common the behavior he describes is. And we are seeing this godless behavior increasingly in America as we are being flooded with people from pagan lands.

[Anonymous No.55786833]

>>55780408
>"Say nigger"
Matthew 14:88

[Anonymous No.55787686]

>>55785851
Thank you anon, I yours too.

[Anonymous No.55787819]

>>55780408
THIS IS LOW KEY A pepechain THREAD. WOW GREAT POST OP. UNIRONICALLY. SHOUT OUT TO PAULY.