(May 24, 2013 at 12:44 pm)Rhythm Wrote: So laying aside that we all make money in different ways - and accepting that what you're probably referring to is the amount of money made...a quick survey of the richest people in the world should give us a relative measure of which faith tradition is more accurate, eh?
You wanna hang your hat on that? Is that what it's all about?
Bill gates, on record, doesn't believe your bullshit. He's number 1.
Vlad Putin, wears a cross, feels that it's no one business - so a different sort of christian than yourself, number 2.
Slim Helu, a maronite - you lose again.
Warren Buffet - agnostic - you lose..yet again.
But fuck these guys, statistical outliers I say!
How about studies which correlate wealth and organized religion? Guess what, you lose again. The median net worth of individuals who follow your religious tradition is -lower- than the median net worth of an individual in our country. Let me translate that for you, in case your illiteracy has you struggling (and god hasn't miracled any understanding of that statement to you, yet).....that means that people who believe in your god are poor compared to people who don't.
Or maybe...just maybe......the relative wealth of yourself, or myself, has no power to demonstrate the accuracy of a god claim-nothing to do with miracles or their originating point. What do you think?
(can I make a suggestion, btw, if you're doing better than I am and so have the cash and time to spare? Invest in some community college courses on biology)
Take it easy rhymmy, I was in no way referring to what you nor I take home. It was a turn of phrase, not a slight against your manhood. Or anything else. (Just trying to make a pun.)
You said we all make money, Your right we all make money we all can provide for our families, and on and on and on... All I was saying was I make money, but not in the way that you do. God gave me and continue to gives me money as long as I am faithful to it. Meaning that I manage what he has given me and that I give a portion of it back. When I get greedy and keep too much, or I buy something that I shouldn't, then the money dries up for a time. (About as long as it take me to give up or give back what I took.)
So yes Bill Gates and everyone else you mentioned and 7/8 of the rest of the western world makes or takes more home than I do, but few Make money like I do.