Was Jesus anti-capitalist?
Summary
This episode of The Story of Money features historian Tom Thatcher discussing the historical Jesus and his conflict with the Temple’s money changers. The conversation explores how the Temple functioned as a massive economic hub under Roman rule, extracting high taxes and operating a currency exchange that exploited pilgrims. Thatcher argues that Jesus’s anti-capitalist message, which viewed wealth as a stewardship rather than private property, directly threatened the financial interests of the priestly elite. The episode posits that this economic defiance, rather than purely theological rea…
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