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Edited on Sat Oct-16-10 10:59 AM by RandomThoughts
You have to realize that Christian doctrine says pay your taxes, and there is an odd verse, and I think a mistake of Paul's by choice of action, where it even says that giving half what you got and hording the rest, is bad.
You have to face the facts that Christianity is a religion of the group, almost everything about it is about the group. Empathy is about the group, as is sharing.
So either a person should stop saying they are a Christian, or share what they have with those in need.
It is pretty clear, although the methods to best do that are often discussed, governance, NGO, charity, private sector, public sector. The fact is Christianity is way closer to sharing what a person has then capitalism.
Although individualism is also important, as spoken of with concepts of grace, and also the concept that anything is possible with God, and such things that make a person happy as an individual, also, if a person choose to, the way a person chooses to be an individual can also be used to share love and kindness.
Whatever gives you joy, any profession or action, if you want to share happiness and love for people, there will be help to allow a person to do that.
It is not that complicated. Although it can be hard for people to think of themselves as part of a bigger part.
But guess what, that is what you do when you are part of the machine of some economic system also. People work as parts of a bigger item, it is that way in every system. Even in the worldly military, people are part of a bigger things.
Think of it as each person as a neuron in a brain, because it ends up that way, either by intervention, or the simple act of neural networks. And the ideologies and motives of the group they join in with, is how they contribute, since that system will try and conform them to the system standards. So find a system that is part of what kind of person you want to be. Or move between systems with different thoughts on different topics. You can go to profit first work, make money, but when asked to hurt someone, then shift to love and kindness group, and argue against some bad things. Be able to bridge between the areas that make up life, and don't just become something by a group you join is how I think on it. If you enjoy the challenge of making money, but also want to be nice, both those opportunities can occur without a conflict. That is why base lines, and rules are needed, so people can enjoy making money without destroying the environment and hurting people.
When you join a firm, it tries to teach you profit first, and conform you to that system. When you want to share kindness and love, you get help to be able to do that with power also, and learning of what love and living is.
But you do get to choose, even as you are a part of a bigger system.
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