RE: Poverty and Theism
April 20, 2017 at 7:32 am
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2017 at 7:36 am by hopey.)
(April 20, 2017 at 7:25 am)Brian37 Wrote:(April 20, 2017 at 7:13 am)hopey Wrote: I don't believe it is due to religion that poverty occurs. If anything it is the needy have a greater reliance upon God. The bible says it this way "deny me riches and poverty, riches least I forget God, and poverty least I steal and profane the name of the LORD may God".
On a personal note God has always helped me get richer, more prominent, never less. The current job that I have I truely believe god gave me. Six months ago I applied for a job with the government, but was rejected. At the time I prayed and said to God "if you think I can do this job, please get it for me some how". Six months latter a job agent asked me if I was interested in a job with the department of education, I was going to say "not really interested", but God prompted me strongly to apply. Through a feeling deep with in me. So I applied. Got the job, and it turns out it was the job I had applied for six month earlier. I find the job easy and rewarding.
To top this off I pray blessing over my clients, or I did I should say, when I worked in my own business, or for general employers. I distinctly remember after praying for many weeks for a client to be blessed, God spoke to me as I worked and asked me the question "How would you like to work for channel 9", chanel 9 was a free to air TV station in our country. I was working on a clients Website at the time, the one I had been praying for, so I was super careful with it in case it was put on TV. That was the feeling I got. A few weeks latter the client came to us and said they were asked by channel 9 if they could appear on TV. They got a spot on A Current Affair, and when the show went to air, their business received thousands of sign ups in one night. It was a boon for the brand, and a blessing both to them and me. To them for their business, to me to know God has answered my prayers for them.
Nope sorry, even with worship of the state like North Korea and worship of the party like Catholic Cuba, all you have to do is sell enough of the mass ideas of utopias, dangle a carrot in front of them they cant reach and put them on the hamster wheel and they will chase it gleefully and vote against their own self interests. The red states in America are worse off and are more religious, there is no polite way to put it.
You know you guys are so blind, you speak of North Korea as if it were a religious state. It is not it is the worlds most pure atheist state. Sure they treat Kim like a God now, but the philosophy of that state is atheism. Atheism is the religion of Communism. But you as an atheist don't want to be associated with the truth that atheistic societies oppress people, especially religious people. North Korea is one of the worlds worst persecutors of Christians, not due to religion, but due to the fact it is banned. Religion is banned.
Sorry if i appeared a little short with you ... but it gets under my skin that your philosophy hurts not heals the world and you parade it around as if it were the worlds saviour. See yo are still under my skin.
Then there is the "lets deny his experiences" ... grrrr
