The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.

[Xeno.of.athens]

In the New Testament, we are warned that loving things more than we love God will lead to suffering and trouble. One of the things that people tend to love in this world is money. The Scriptures warn that the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. We can see that in our own society today, where the pursuit of wealth the building of great stores of wealth by a few individuals sees the society as a whole suffer. Many Christians are inclined to say that a man or a woman has a right to the fruit of their own labours. They mean by that that the person should be able to keep whatever wealth they earn by whatever means they earn it, as long as those means are lawful. But now we see some individuals, a few, who hold hundreds of billions of dollars in personal wealth while others within their own country are living in poverty and don't have a roof over the head in winter, and can't feed and keep their family healthy with medicines because of the prices that are charged for the medicines and for medical cover and for rent and for all the other matters that are essential to living in society. If Christ were our law giver, what kind of laws do you think we would have about wealth and about helping the poor?

In our capitalist thinking, the poor are often regarded as kind of evolutionarily unfit, unfit to survive in our society. Can a Christian hold a view like that?

 

[Unqualified]

A man or woman leaves their wealth behind.
1Cor 10:24
James 5:2
Mat 13:22

These are laws that Jesus taught when He was here. Others, but mostly spiritual riches can lead to pride also.
I don’t think Jesus would make laws for the rich. We all have a choice what we do with money. If just Christians would tithe we wouldn’t need the rich. The poor should be rich in faith. God takes care of His people, even the homeless spiritually.

 

[timothyu]

In our capitalist thinking, the poor are often regarded as kind of evolutionarily unfit, unfit to survive in our society. Can a Christian hold a view like that?

Today it is the corporate elite who hold that view of anybody not of their station. Their recent beef at Davos last week was that all those beneath their elite dignity were not doing as they are told. Can a Christian hold a view like that? No, but for some odd reason they still support these elites and their politicians and they including Christians, enjoy wallowing in the divisive world they have created as a result. Money fuels power but it is still the poor that fuel that power with their support of the system. That has always been the way. The poor non elites would rather attack each other than snuffing out that which oppresses them, and as we kill each other in wars the elites profit off of both sides. People is stupid.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

Today it is the corporate elite who hold that view of anybody not of their station. Their recent beef at Davos last week was that all those beneath their elite dignity were not doing as they are told. Can a Christian hold a view like that? No, but for some odd reason they still support these elites and their politicians and they including Christians, enjoy wallowing in the divisive world they have created as a result. Money fuels power but it is still the poor that fuel that power with their support of the system. That has always been the way. The poor non elites would rather attack each other than snuffing out that which oppresses them, and as we kill each other in wars the elites profit off of both sides. People is stupid.

When you think about it, Jesus Christ was not a conservative. He was not a right-wing politician fighting for the continuation of all the injustices that were present in society of his time. He preached a radical departure, a message about loving one another, about serving one another, about doing justice and being good, about avoiding greed, about avoiding avarice. These are not words that people want to hear. They did not want to hear them at the time that Jesus spoke them. And most people do not want to hear them today. We like things the way that they are. They give us comfort. They are a continuation of all the stuff that we are in favour of because we benefit from it. The richer we are, the more conservative we are likely to be because we have more to conserve. The poor feel less attached to the way things are today. They have less to lose if there's a big change. For the poor, a revolution seems like a chance at justice. For the rich, a revolution looks like anarchy and a chance to lose all the wealth and advantages that they have. None of this is even remotely like the gospel that Jesus preached. Why are we as Christians not on the side of Jesus in matters like this? Why do so many Christians prefer to leave things the way they are, to be conservative, to allow wealth to be accumulated by the few while the people as a whole fall into poverty?

 

[timothyu]

Why do so many Christians prefer to leave things the way they are, to be conservative, to allow wealth to be accumulated by the few while the people as a whole fall into poverty?

Because they don't realize it is a battle between the Kingdom and the world we have make in our own image (one of adversity not only to God but each other). They don't realize because their religious educators have failed them, that the battle has always been between God and not just adversarial man but His adversaries within the elohim He was fighting before man was even created. Two wills at play, one self serving, the other focusing on the needs of others (and not for personal gain).
As an added note most Christians don't even realize their religion abandoned the Kingdom to rejoin the world of man centuries ago taking the offer of all this can be yours that Jesus refused, and that religion has taught in a manner to protect itself and cover that up ever since. No wonder Christians willingly play the world's game.

 

[The Liturgist]

In our capitalist thinking, the poor are often regarded as kind of evolutionarily unfit, unfit to survive in our society. Can a Christian hold a view like that?

No. Such a view, which is held by Scientologists, is Satanic.