>>81964
Jesus. Not that Jesus was very concerned with temporal matters, as His kingdom is not of this world (John 18:36).
As I said in another thread, Jesus blessed Zacchaeus, a very rich man, and his household. Zacchaeus said he would pay his debtors back fourfold and give half his wealth to the poor, but he did not give away everything (Luke 19:1-10). This stands in seeming contradiction to the story of the rich man that Jesus' sent away (Matthew 19:16-24), but this contradiction is very easily resolved if we interpret it as Jesus testing the heart of the rich man, and the lesson of the passage as the one that we should not let wealth get in the way of salvation. Look at those words carefully: Don't let wealth get in the way of salvation. Under which circumstances wealth does get in the way of salvation, that is another matter. As for the camel and the needle, the word for camel can also mean rope, so keep that in mind when interpreting the metaphor.
Furthermore, certain Parables, like the Parable of the Wicked Tenants (Luke 20:9-19), of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30), of the Minas (Luke 19:12-27) and of the Workers in the Vinyard (Matthew 20:1–16) presuppose that property rights are not illegitimate. Read them while pretending that Jesus was a communist. Do they still make sense? Or are they as if Lenin likened God to a kulak to explain His grand and just plan?