Poverty And Christianity
by
D.C.Edwards
Somehow far too many in Christianity have propagated, and even encouraged, throughout the long centuries since the death of Christ, the notion that poverty, or "to be poor" as many often say it with their mouths slightly down-turned in an expression of great piety and humility, is indeed a noble, honorable, and as some strangely think, even enviable state of circumstances for one to find him or herself in, especially if this state of being were arrived at through the intentional taking of a "vow of poverty" as many religious and monastic orders do. Of course, there is a clear distinction made between these "poverty-seekers," those who ostensibly make this choice of poverty so as to be as they believed Christ to be, poor --- and those, "who through no fault of their own" find themselves victims of this ubiquitous, worldly misfortune. And while this second type of poverty is not quite as enviable as the first to "these pious seekers of abject destitution," it is nevertheless preferable to its opposite, which is the accumulation of wealth and worldly possessions. which they consider as representative of all that is wrong with the world..
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