Jesus4Madrid
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You are just randomly searching for articles from unknown sources to try to disprove the Brookings study? Why? Because you don’t believe in personal accountability for poverty?There are severe methodological problems with the conclusions drawn by Brookings and your conclusions go further than theirs, not least is which is the matter of causality. It also ignores the point I made earlier about the proportion of the poor who are children, disabled, and elderly - they don't have anything to do with the success sequence but make up the majority of the poor. I'm not particularly interested in getting into these issues as these empirical issues are beyond the point of the discussion at hand, which is about theology. If you really insist on getting into it, here's the first article that turned up on google which properly identifies the main methodological problem with the Brookings assertions: The Success Sequence Is Extremely Misleading And Impossible to Code
But then you do believe in personal accountability for riches? So if my sin makes me poor, we should blame others, but if my sin makes me rich, I am culpable?
That’s an egregious double standard.
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