The God Of Money
Now, many if not most people, when conjuring up an image of a God of Money, would consider that God to be sinister if not out right Diablo - the Devil. But a strange thing happened at a Bible study I attended last Friday, where this Christian man of God - an associate pastor of a Presbyterian church declared that God is a Capitalist.
Crazy? Yeah, you bet. Worse, he defended this idea only with what he himself had observed during the past 20 years. He said this because, from what he's seen, life has gotten better for people in the past 20 years. He made no use of actual scientific economic studies. He is, though, an employee of one of the most affluent churches in one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the country. I seriously wonder if he's spent any time with actual poor people. He does brag of rubbing elbows with extremely wealthy people.
Funny, he didn't always have this point of view. Only in the past 4 months or so has he converted to "the other side." Sadly the bible study is only a half hour long. Because, I would certainly like to pick his brain some, and try to understand his point of view, and how he came to this conclusion.
Maybe we'll be able to talk more about it this coming Friday.
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