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I agree. If you're a Christian and have a lot of money, you better be generous, it's explicit. It doesn't say give till you're on equal footing with everybody or that the government should be the doler out of said money.

The problem I have with most people that correctly or incorrectly use those verses in or out of context (not saying you are) want to use this as a beacon of income equality but ignore everything the Bible teaches on morality.

On the flip side some rich Christians want to be really moral but skim over the generous thing.

Just something to think about I guess. I'm really not that religious - more philosophical I guess and try to live ethically. Strange that Jesus seems to repeatedly warn against materialism and now quantum mechanics is allowing us to peep into the reality of the world around us - and reveal that materialism may be an illusion.

"It’s quite the conundrum, isn’t it? Our experience tells us that our reality is made up of physical material things, and that our world is an independently existing objective one. Again, what quantum mechanics reveals is that there is no true “physicality” in the universe, that atoms are made of focused vorticies of energy-miniature tornadoes that are constantly popping into and out of existence. The revelation that the universe is not an assembly of physical parts, suggested by Newtonian physics, and instead comes from a holistic entanglement of immaterial energy waves stems from the work of Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg, among others."

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