Jesus' own coming was by no means so introverted and other-worldly as a Pauline reinterpretation—always welcome to the ruling class—would have it. ..… - Ernst Bloch

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Jesus' own coming was by no means so introverted and other-worldly as a Pauline reinterpretation—always welcome to the ruling class—would have it. ... To Jesus, the kingdom of this world was the devil (John 8:44). This is why he never suggested allowing it to go on; he did not conclude a non-aggression pact with it.

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About Ernst Bloch

Ernst Simon Bloch (July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977) was a German Marxist philosopher. He was a Marxist philosopher, however with a Liberal mind.

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Alternative Names: Ernst Simon Bloch Karl Knerz
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All Joachimism was an active struggle against the social principles of a Christianity which from St. Paul on would ally itself with the class society in a thousand compromises, a Christianity whose earthly salvation practice is itself a single catalog of sins, down—or up—to the last link: the understanding which Fascism was shown by the Vatican.

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