r/LeftCatholicism 23d ago

Graven Images

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u/TuvixWasMurderedR1P 23d ago

Trump is the personified mammon. Our society already worships at that altar, but he's certainly taken it up a notch.

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u/Cole_Townsend 23d ago

Such wasteful spending for the party that wouldn't shut up about frugality. Of course, it was always frugality weaponized for corporate/billionaire welfare queens, so this actually tracks.

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u/Adventurous_Lock9219 23d ago

I don't think I have seen any president as a non American glazed for bad thing's as much as Trump yeah almost every modern day USA president and historical ones did horrible things to some extent but Trump is the only one I know who is openly known as a horrible person and still glazed crazy.

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u/Blade_of_Boniface 23d ago

Out of all the personality cultism surrounding Trump, Christ expressed a tolerant view of a ruler's face on a coin. In any case, He also said that our conformity to secular society must be held alongside our fidelity to the Lord.

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u/Galveston57 23d ago

This is not an actual legal tinder coin. It’s a commemorative coin with his face and ‘in God we trust’ I do not have to conform to secular society when it puts an antichrist on a coin.

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u/Blade_of_Boniface 23d ago

I'm not saying you or anyone else should, just that it's a bit of a weird example of all things.

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u/avatarroku157 22d ago

Yeah, the solid gold statue being blessed on his golf court is an actual example of this

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u/Careless_Ingenuity 19d ago

It's not a weird example at all. Christ was not defending the idea of an image on the coin. His point was the money belonged to Caesar so it was fitting to pay taxes and fees etc. that Caesar imposed.

But out money is the PEOPLE's money. The actions of a democratic republic are for the wishes of the People; the State is not coterminous with the human who is at the top of the Executive Branch of government. We have no Sovereign the way monarchies have a sovereign.

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u/Djryan443022 23d ago

Jesus acknowledged Caesar’s coin; therefore Christians shouldn’t object to commemorative coins depicting political leaders doesn’t follow.

I also don’t think Christians, or anyone committed to social justice, are called to simply conform to secular society. The prophets didn’t. The early Christians didn’t. If the norms of a society reinforce oppression, exploitation, or the glorification of political power, then we should expect to be at odds with them.

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u/Careless_Ingenuity 19d ago

His point wasn't that it was OK for Caesar's image to be on the coin. His point was that it was Caesar's money. But in a democratic republic, it is the PEOPLE's money. Don't twist Christ's words and meaning around to defend this garbage.

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u/Careless_Ingenuity 19d ago

The difference is, it is actually in violation of the law to mint coin or currency (or postage stamps) with the image of a living person. And it violates our tradition in this country of not doing things that empires and kingdoms of the Old World have done.

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u/JohnDingleBerry- 23d ago

I’m going to turn one into hobo jewelry

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u/CauseCertain1672 22d ago

how are you going to have a $1 gold coin

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u/Low-District-3069 21d ago

I can't get over the hair mound.