You are the one interpreting that poverty is a virtue. Nobody has ever said or practiced this in the early Church. None of this is taught in Christian tradition. In fact Orthodox Christians are one of the most financially successful religious groups.
You're also an idiot because that passage of Deuteronomy is referring to punishment for forgetting God, abandoning Christianity and indulging in vice. Which is exactly what happened. The traditional Christian countries don't have these problems.
All of this is just you reading your own interpretations into the texts and then projecting that onto us. It's completely meaningless. And the whole "it says it right there in the text" is exactly what every person says to justify their idiotic interpretation. Christ consciousness? "It says it right there! You are all gods!" Salvation by faith alone "It says it right there! Faith without works!"
How about this, think of the most outlandish and stupid interpretation you can possibly imagine and I'll find a few verses to twist in support of it. You can literally interpret the Bible any way you want.
It's purely agenda driven nonsense and nothing else.
And the Church Fathers wrote volumes of texts critiquing Jews. You clearly haven't even read a word of their writings, yet your critiquing the faith that rests ENTIRELY on their writings. That alone is proof that you are a complete buffoon
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