(February 10, 2016 at 8:37 am)Brakeman Wrote: I doubt any theist would claim that the bible isn't supposed to be inspiring, but how can they compartmentalize the lack of social justice in the bible? The bible writers tell us to give money to the poor but nothing is said about giving jobs, training, education, and shared resources to the poor. The bible doesn't address why there are poor in the society in the beginning.
People are poor because they are lazy and sleep too much.
Proverbs 10:4 (NLT) = "Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich."
Proverbs 6:11 (ERV) = "But then you sleep and sleep and become poorer and poorer. Soon you will have nothing. It will be as if a thief came and stole everything you owned."
