If so, then what happened to you can't serve love and money?
Study: Wealthiest 1 percent owns 40 percent of country’s wealth
Study: Wealthiest 1 percent owns 40 percent of country’s wealth
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If so, then what happened to you can't serve love and money?
Study: Wealthiest 1 percent owns 40 percent of country’s wealth
If so, then what happened to you can't serve love and money?
Study: Wealthiest 1 percent owns 40 percent of country’s wealth
I would go so far as to say that the fundamental opposition between basic Christian values and the values that the USA was founded upon are at the heart of many of our worst problems, past and present.People with a lot of disposable income, in unequal societies, get a very bad rap from the pages of the New Testament. If a person doesn't agree with this in principle, then Christianity isn't the religion for you and it doesn't appear to be the religion best suited to American culture.
Does America think it's a Christian nation?
In the main, Christianity is still an important feature in the American patriotic mythos.
Unfortunately, while something like 70% of the population adheres (whether devoutly or nominally) to some variation of the Christian faith, at times it comes across as a very watered-down, bastardized form of Christianity.
A prosperity gospel, the good news of reaganomics and Wall Street finance - helmed by that admirable paragon of simplicity and spartan minimalism President Donald Trump.
Out of all the world's great religions - and there are many - Christianity is the least comfortable with disparities in wealth, the most socially radical it might legitimately be argued.
Here's a challenge: open up the New Testament at a random page, twice, and I'll bet my bottom dollar that some kind of negative reference is made towards "wealth" or "the rich".
It's one of the glaring takeaways even the most casual reader will derive from the New Testament i.e.
James 5 New King James Version (NKJV)
Rich Oppressors Will Be Judged
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.
4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
People with a lot of disposable income, in unequal societies, get a very bad rap from the pages of the New Testament. If a person doesn't agree with this in principle, then Christianity isn't the religion for you and it doesn't appear to be the religion best suited to American culture.
I would go so far as to say that the fundamental opposition between basic Christian values and the values that the USA was founded upon are at the heart of many of our worst problems, past and present.
You won't find anything about personal freedom, capitalism, or representative government anywhere in the Bible. Quite the opposite, those are secular values.
The resulting form of a sort of cultural schizophrenia is evident from the very beginning. The guy who wrote "All men are created equal, with a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" owned a whole bunch of slaves. Which had to be sold upon his death to pay off his considerable debt.
Tom
Sorta, why?Each line of the constitution,bill of rights etc was the work of committees, was it not?
Yes and he was torn about that issue, unfortunately if he did not own slaves he would not have been able to compete in the environment at that time. From what I understand he freed quite a few during his lifetime which may have led in some degree to his indebtedness.. The guy who wrote "All men are created equal, with a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" owned a whole bunch of slaves. Which had to be sold upon his death to pay off his considerable debt.
Tom
Sorta, why?
Tom
If so, then what happened to you can't serve love and money?
Study: Wealthiest 1 percent owns 40 percent of country’s wealth
You won't find anything about personal freedom, capitalism, or representative government anywhere in the Bible. Quite the opposite, those are secular values.
He was torn because the slavery, a remnant of the Christian culture he was a product of benefited him so much he couldn't let go of it. Despite the obvious contradictions with his Enlightenment secular values.Yes and he was torn about that issue, unfortunately if he did not own slaves he would not have been able to compete in the environment at that time.
I will stand to be corrected, but I don't believe that is true. Other Founding Fathers did so. But Jefferson only allowed a few to escape and those were his own children. He never set any Free.From what I understand he freed quite a few during his lifetime which may have led in some degree to his indebtedness.
He was torn because the slavery, a remnant of the Christian culture he was a product of benefited him so much he couldn't let go of it. Despite the obvious contradictions with his Enlightenment secular values.
Me too, at least by global standards.My luck of the draw was to be born into what seems
to me a kind of ridiculous amount of money, though
I live very modestly.
I try not to, and try to do the opposite. Not having children, I have had a lot more free time and disposal income than most people. I have tried to invest that in Peace and Justice and Charity.I dont think I oppress anyone.