Took that way out of context. Its an understanding for a need of God. Not simply economic need. Looks at the perception of things, where the rich have it harder to need. The passage goes on and in depths of brilliant teachings. Each small verse is so complex that using it like this would destroy the character of a person using this as an argument. Co'mon kylie, your better than that!

Here's a longer excerpt of the first part of Sermon on the Mount. The thrust of the lesson, as I take it, is that spiritual comfort is for all no matter how meek. Indeed, the meek will actually inherit the earth.

All lives mattered to Jesus, of course. All lives matter to those who say "black lives matter" as well, believe it or not. But in Jesus's society as well as ours, all are not equal. The disadvantaged need to hear that their lives matter, too.

Just look at his life. Jesus consistently sided with and comforted the poor, the hungry, the sick, the old, women, prostitutes, etc. Those disadvantaged by the social structures of the day.

Jesus also had a consistent message against the concept of hoarding wealth: see the camel passing through the eye of the needle verse. https://www.biblehub.com/matthew/19-24.htm

To Jesus, all lives are equal, which implies a process of equalizing.

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If race doesn’t matter, then why the stuff about the dogs? I think race did matter: Then and now.

The stuff about pitting family members against each other sounds like the ramblings of a cult leader.

That’s what cult leaders do: They get their followers to sever their connections with those they love and instead install themselves at the center of everything. I guess when you proclaim yourself the Son of God, a bit of that comes with the territory.

I never said Jesus was perfect, but I take from him the teachings I find useful.

And what do you take from Jesus?

Feel free to enlighten me.

What is your job?

What lessons do you draw from Jesus’s teachings?

Start with whichever Jesus you want.

Give me a range of Jesuses from which to select.