You stated it as a fact with no qualifiers at all.
Stated as a fact , my opinion is that it is a patently false statement. And that's a fact.
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Who Needs the ‘Resistance’ When You’ve Got the GOP Writing the Budget?
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You stated it as a fact with no qualifiers at all.
Stated as a fact , my opinion is that it is a patently false statement. And that's a fact.
Brent W
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Ok whatever makes you happy. I followed up as it is my opinion and why I feel that way. Feel free to respond to what I said in my follow up or don't. Up to you.
Not Republican. Trump. He ran a campaign of hate and he's following it through with his actions as President. The Neo-Nazi's, white supremacists, Alt-Right, and the usual Republicans who think the needy are in their condition due to their own unwillingness to work and the wealthy are blessed by God. This is called the prosperity Gospel and is preached by Joel Osteen and previously by Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller. This is a false gospel.
I'm curious, would you say that, in your estimation, that the "Puritan work ethic" had any similarities with the modern prosperity gospel?
I think the Prosperity Gospel is a holdover from the First Covenant God had with Israel. The Bible clearly states that the First covenant was never intended to be the final reconciliation between God and Man and was completely replaced by the Second Covenant of Grace provided by Christ's death on the cross and resurrection. I like the statement some theologians use. The First Covenant was nailed to the cross.
Thank you for the interesting response.
Would say that the curse in Genesis 3:17-19 is still going strong? I ask because some of the young guys at work were talking about the lottery. I said that winning would only produce a new set of troubles, using the tail end of Genesis 3 as my reasoning.
Certainly not everyone who is poor is poor due to laziness, as you said, and it would be shameful to generalize them as such. But it also seems to me that tbis world is something we actively have to work against to eat.