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Was Jesus Christ a materialist? "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead." (Matthew 8:22)

• sambull 7y ago
  No, but some use what people say are his teachings as reasons to prop up their extraction of resources,materials/creating materialist things from the earth; as according to interpretations of their versions of that teachings their god has given them dominion to use all the resources. Dominion of all things: "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."" King James, Genesis 1:28 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology
• arnoooooo 7y ago
  Actually, he was, and Abrahamic religions are probably the reason for materialism in science. It all starts with the distinction between heaven and the earth, the spirit and the flesh… Abrahamic religions are fundamentally dualistic, by contrast with eastern religions like hinduism or buddhism wich have had the concept of non-duality for long. My understanding is that the only places you find a form of non-duality in Abrahamic religions is in their mystical variants.
  • xamuel 7y ago
    There's tons of non-duality in Christ's teachings, but it's subtler and doesn't smash you over the head as much. "Do not judge, or you will be judged. For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." (Matthew 7:1-2) "For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother." (Matthew 12:50) "Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me." (Matthew 25:40)
    • arnoooooo 7y ago
      You could just as well interpret that "dually" though.