lemurgoddess ([info]lemurgoddess) wrote,
@ 2006-09-11 10:25:00
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Does God want you to be rich?
Does God want you to be rich?

[info]deepwoodsdancer sent me a link to the above article and I thought it might be of some interest to my readers. It talks about the so-called "Health and Wealth" ministeries. The type that preach, "Why wait for Heaven, when you can have it all now, too!"

Frankly, I find that mentality distgusting. Certain Christian ideologies so blatantly contradict the teachings of Jesus it shocks me that people still grasp onto the "Chrisitan" title. The vain pursuit of wealth, supporting the taking of ANY life; how can these possibly be reconciled with Christian belief?! It seems one would REALLY need to twist The Teachings to bring these together into a single mentality. And those who do, I think are deluding themselves.

And I don't fully accept the whole "I'm only human!" excuse. Sure you are human, and may slip-up in living up to the high ethnical standards set forth by Jesus. But, occasional misteps in your Walk is one thing (you get angry and wish death upon someone), to ignore the teachings entirely is something else (supporting war and the death penalty). You're not just a little near-sighted, you're completely blind.



Would Jesus kill, even in self-defense?
Would Jesus pursue earthly comforts and vainly pursue wealth?
Where in the Bible does Jesus suggest his followers get really rich and war against others?
Do you believe Jesus would condone such behavior?
If not, are you engaging in this mentality?
Why don't you stop?
Because your flawed and "only human?"
Then what steps are you taking to be more Christ-like?
Are you even trying?

These are questions a lot of Christians have trouble answering. But, I'm always open to hearing how people justify such things -- particularly if they could provide Biblical support.

It's particularly interesting when they will go to such great lengths to support such villiany, but won't budge an inch and say that "gay is okay."

Welcome to AmeriChristianity. The teachings of Jesus Christ infected with the American obsession with money, power and consumption.

If you want to rack up your bank account and body count, so be it. But, I'd rather you didn't sully Jesus' name.


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[info]wallyfenderson
2006-09-11 03:43 pm UTC (link)
Don't ask me why
But I was walking down the streets
Of Fairfax, California
And I saw this flyer hangin'
On a telephone pole, and it said
CAN GOD FILL TEETH?
For a $10 donation
You could see silver fillings turn
To gold and other supernormal dental happenings.
New caps! Filled cavities! Bring a
Flashlight and a mirror and observe

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Money is the lifeblood of the powerful and the chains and key to human enslavement
[info]sevenstarhand
2006-09-11 04:29 pm UTC (link)
Hello Lemur_god and all,

RE: "Does God want you to be rich?"
How about, does the Creator want some people to suffer and starve while some wallow in luxury and ignore the plight of others? What about "serving mammon" (money and materialism) instead of truth, justice, and your fellow souls? How about the rich man and the eye of a needle? Talking about the blind leading the blind...

Here's some pivotal knowledge (wisdom) so people can stop focusing on symptoms and obfuscatory details and home in like a laser on the root causes of and solutions to humanity's seemingly never-ending struggles.

There is a radical and highly effective solution to all of our economic problems that will dramatically simplify, streamline, and revitalize human civilization. It will eliminate all poverty, debt, and the vast majority of crime, material inequality, deception, and injustice. It will also eliminate the underlying causes of most conflicts, while preventing evil scoundrels and their cabals from deceiving, deluding, and bedeviling humanity, ever again. It will likewise eliminate the primary barriers to solving global warming, pollution, and the many evils that result from corporate greed and their control of natural and societal resources. That solution is to simply eliminate money from the human equation, thereby replacing the current system of greed, exploitation, and institutionalized coercion with freewill cooperation, just laws based on verifiable wisdom , and societal goals targeted at benefiting all, not just a self-chosen and abominably greedy few.

We can now thank millennia of political, monetary, and religious leaders for proving, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that top-down, hierarchical governance is absolute folly and foolishness. Even representative democracy, that great promise of the past, was easily and readily subverted to enslave us all, thanks to money and those that secretly control and deceptively manipulate all currencies and economies. Is there any doubt anymore that entrusting politics and money to solve humanity's problems is delusion of the highest order? Is there any doubt that permitting political and corporate leaders to control the lives of billions has resulted in great evil?

Here's a real hot potato! Eat it up, digest it, and then feed it's bones to the hungry...

Most people have no idea that the common-denominator math of all the world's currencies forms an endless loop that generates debt faster than we can ever generate the value to pay for it. This obscured and purposeful math-logic trap at the center of all banking, currencies, and economies is the root cause of poverty. Those who rule this world through fear and deception strive constantly to hide this fact, while pretending to seek solutions to poverty and human struggle. Any who would scoff at this analysis have simply failed to do the math, even though it is based on a simple common-denominator ratio.

Here is Wisdom

Doctrine of Two Spirits...

Peace...

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Amen.
[info]irishkitsune
2006-09-11 11:25 pm UTC (link)
That's all I can say to that.

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[info]aseariel
2006-10-02 11:51 pm UTC (link)
things like that make me wonder if there isn't something fundamentally wrong with christians (which, since i consider myself one, is quite the conundrum). then i see something like what you've written. and i come to a line like the last one:

If you want to rack up your bank account and body count, so be it. But, I'd rather you didn't sully Jesus' name.

thank you, for that. you make me feel less crazy.

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[info]lemurgoddess
2006-10-03 12:05 am UTC (link)
No prob. :)

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