In the 21st Century I have noticed that sadly we have not progressed much past the time of Dickens.
He wrote about the poor dying in the streets of London, whilst the rich preached over them, called them "undeserving" and decreed that they "deserved" their fate because their poverty was the result of their own bad blood (laziness, stupidity, immorality etc) - even though many of these rich people were the laziest, stupidest and most immoral people on earth!!!
Time and again I read on here that if a man is poor it is because he is lazy, stupid or immoral and if a man is materially rich it is because he is somehow "superior" in his work ethic, intellect or talent.
This is not true. Yet sadly many of the people who preach this stuff claim to be Christians as well.
What does the Bible have to say on the subject. Didn't Jesus say it was "easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle" than for a rich man to enter heaven. What does that tell us?
2007-08-28
20:56:33
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