RE: Poverty and Theism
April 5, 2017 at 9:40 am
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2017 at 9:41 am by Mystic.)
(April 5, 2017 at 5:42 am)ignoramus Wrote:(April 4, 2017 at 11:51 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Does poverty equate to under education (ignorance) and therefore religion?
Or maybe that religion might be a desperate grasp as an escape from poverty?
both ...when this life sucks, you make sure the next one will be better...
Exactly, which shows the wisdom of God allowing us to suffer by all sorts of things.... according to hadiths attributed to the Imams, God favored the poor and oppressed over the rich, and is trying the rich and well off people by the oppressed and poor.
Paradise was meant for poor and oppressed, and rich have to earn it through how they treat poor and oppressed and strive for their rights.
Humanity will one day all be wealthy according to hadiths (a real economic utopia as well as moral utopia) when Imam Mahdi establishes justice on earth but until our hearts are ready to love one another and love his chosen guardian and through his channelling of God's Love, God then for the most part wealth is a trial by which Quran warns not to feel that God has favored anyone through but rather are being tried and for the most part people perish due to it.
And sometimes education makes one according to Quran like past nations, feel pride in the knowledge they are given, and not in need of the higher type!
