Reza Aslan: Most Christians are clueless about Jesus — who wanted the rich to be poor

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This post is about the concept of "the reversal of the social order" and discussion of same. as well as the cluelessness of fundamentalist Christians and the right wing in general. The article also has relevance to current events in the mid-east.
The author is a noted scholar famous for, among other thigs, taking no guff from FOX or its minions.

“Look at the bare-bone facts of this guy’s life, what you are talking about is a poor – and I mean poorest of the poor – uneducated, very likely illiterate, marginal Jewish peasant from the backwoods of Galilee who, despite all of that, starts this movement on behalf of the poor, the weak, the dispossessed, the marginalized, (and) women,” Aslan said.


“This is all about equalizing everyone, that everyone is on the same plane,” he continued. “But Jesus never talked about equality – he talked about the reversal of the social order. He was envisioning a world in which the last would be first and the first would be last. The rich would be made poor, the poor would be made rich. That is an incredibly revolutionary, radical idea.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/reza-aslan-most-christians-are-clueless-about-jesus-who-wanted-the-rich-to-be-poor/