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pro-social justice, pro-selflessness, pro-equality, and pro-social programs.
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However, can you point to any passage (and I'm Catholic, so you've got an awful lot of leeway plus several more books I'll consider that most Protestants won't) in which Jesus tells his Disciples (or anyone else) to go out, take people's money from them by force, and use that money to pay for such things?
Jesus tells his Disciples to "feed my sheep" -personally-. He tells his followers to give out of their own abilities and their own treasure. Nowhere does he advocate, that I've ever seen, robbing one man to feed another or rebuild another's house.
Additionally, while He says bluntly that the wealthy have a difficult time entering the Kingdom Of God, He also makes it clear that this is because they are more tied to "this world," having built up treasure in it which binds them to it emotionally and spiritually. Nowhere does he say that being wealthy is inherently evil, or that the rich deserve to be punished. Joseph Of Aramathea, the man who donated his own personal tomb for Jesus's burial after the Crucifixion, was one of the wealthiest men in Roman Palestine at the time, wealthy enough to gain personal access to Pontius Pilate and his superiors. Something tells me that if Jesus was "anti-rich," as you put it, he wouldn't have had somebody like that hanging around except to throw unpleasant things at Him.