This is trash morality which you should have zero respect for. It's only understandable if you take it for what it really is: Bronze age Middle-Eastern mythology.
> where the rich are told they should be generous to the poor versus telling the poor that they have a right to something possessed by the rich.
But of facking course. Indeed, one of the major purposes of organized religion is keeping the masses in check.
“Why peasant, perhaps you are starting to question why you toil in back breaking work and neither you nor your family will ever have any rights or anything to your name, while the lord of the manor feasts on the food that you have produced without ever so much as grabbing a plow in his life? Perhaps you even start to think that you're not so much different, you and him, that you are both human?
Perhaps, god forbid, you are starting to believe that a more just way to distribute labour and rewards could be yours? That you should struggle and take what should be yours?
Can't have that no! Here:
- Honour your """natural""" superiors
- Obey god (i.e. the priests and clergy)
- Do not covet what's not yours
That should do it. Obey these commandments or you'll go to hell for eternity!”
How convenient.