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c) a clear sense that we may have created a self-righteous self-serving religious culture that blames those who can't achieve or adapt to society's demands for personal achievement on account of their supposed spiritual or moral shortcomings rather than do something to addresss the conditions of hopelessless fear and failure that come down heavily on anyone who falls behind. Does anyone think that some people aren't cut out for individualism and their 'inabilties' may only be apparent under conditions that compel them to think purely in those terms.?




Please cite some actual examples of this, Alan.


--Mac



I can't speak for religious INSTITUTIONS, but the mind of Christ will never influence anyone to accumulate money and leave others destitute. many scriptures come to mind instantly:

Mark 8:36
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Ephesians 4:28
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.


James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.


but even in the spirit-filled time after pentecost, there were those who had a sense of entitlement, and Paul wrote this as his judgment:

2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

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