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Politics : Fahrenheit 9/11: Michael Moore's Masterpiece -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (227)	6/23/2004 1:15:55 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2772

If you are trying to rally an underclass, in support of your new religion, it would be important to appeal to outcastes. "Be careful and guard against all kinds of greed. Life is not measured by how much one owns." Luke chapter 12 verse 15. YB "The love of money is the root of all evil." 1 Timothy chapter 6 verse 10. KJV. “You lack one thing; go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me” (Mark 10:21b). " Religious Jews believed that wealth was a sign of God’s blessing. Rich people were regarded as those God had blessed and poor people were regarded as those God had cursed. That is why when Jesus told his disciples how hard it would be for rich people to enter the kingdom of God, “they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, ‘Then who can be saved?’” (v. 26). Here we see the beginnings of what we know today as the “prosperity gospel,” the belief that wealth is a sign of God’s approval, and poverty and hardship a sign of God’s disapproval. The gospel of Jesus challenges the prosperity gospel for, as we see in today’s gospel story, poverty and God’s love can go hand in hand. In fact, voluntary poverty can be a way of responding to God’s love. Prosperity gospel is nothing but materialism in religious garb. Materialism is the belief that without wealth life is meaningless. The rich young man was a materialist believer. Our prayer today is that God may give us more wisdom than the monkey to flee materialism in all its forms. For “what profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit one’s life?” (Mark 8:36)" I don't think you can reconcile wealth with Jesus. You can certainly find other places in the bible that could support amassing a fortune, but Jesus would clearly not approve.