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To: Fester Chugabrew

If you are suggesting that those who are poor and oppressed are so because they are wicked and those who are rich and happy are so because they are good, you need to step away from the keyboard and go immediately read Job and repent as Eliphaz did. This "wealth and health" philosophy is pernicious because it is used as grounds for despising those who suffer and as a way to rationalize one's oppression of others--if I hurt you and get away with it, it must be because you are evil and God is set against you. The Bible explicitly condemns this. In the conclusion of Job, God tells Job's friends who told him that he would not suffer if he were not a sinner, "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as my servant Job has." Shame on you.


508 posted on 08/31/2006 6:37:43 AM PDT by ahayes ("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
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To: ahayes
If you are suggesting that those who are poor and oppressed are so because they are wicked . . .

Not at all. I didn't say anything about the "poor and oppressed." The fact is we are all subject to the moral law as laid down in the Decalogue, and it is administered through earthly authority, and that authority is valid insofar as it is in accord with the moral code emanating from the Creator. Whoever attempts to deny or fight that law will suffer punishment, including employees (slaves) who have their heads up their a$$ and think they can disobey their employers (masters) at will.

510 posted on 08/31/2006 7:33:15 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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