In my head, all that Sunday school I had internalized as a kid makes me think, "This is not the kind of church Jesus would preach at" when I see a really nice church where wealthy people attend.
Some Christians talk about "mammonites" or "the cult of mammon":
- wealth and power are not reliable proxies for favor and righteousness (as many in Jesus's day thought)
- wealth and power come with unique temptations
Jesus also said "make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings" and there's a bunch of proverbs that talk about how the diligent prosper.
A lot of wealthy people are really generous.
And Luke 16:9, which you quoted, is taken out of context.
> A lot of wealthy people are really generous.
Not so much that they give away all that they have, as Jesus commanded. So, more like "kinda really generous, but not enough that it hurts".
[I am an atheist, but I will not stand for antithetical repurposing of religious texts.]
What context am I missing?
>Not so much that they give away all that they have, as Jesus commanded
Matthew 19:16-30, which you're quoting, is taken out of context.
https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/does-jesus-teach-us-t...