Religious "moderates" and atheists

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Jesus said that "it's harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle". When nations and people gain too much material wealth they become proud start to think they can do it all themselves. That's when they begin to collapse, as in the case of present day America and Western Europe. It's all history repeating itself.

Jesus also said to sell your possessions and give it all to the poor, and you obviously haven't, so I like how you say this, as if you aren't one of the 'rich men' he's talking about.

The rich young man he was talking to was attached to his possessions to the point that he was unwilling to part with them to follow Jesus. That's why he told him he needed to give them away. They were keeping him from God. He never said that, as a general rule, we must give all our possessions away, rather we are to be good stewards of them. Everything we have is on loan from God and is to be used for his purposes. The western world is declining economically and as a world power. China is taking more and more of world market. India's economy is growing very quickly. Putin in Russia is laughing at us while he takes more of Ukraine. The standard of living is also on the decline in the West.