We need to make some dramatic, concrete moves to escape the materialism that seeps into our minds via diabolically clever and incessant advertising. We have been brainwashed to believe that bigger houses, more prosperous businesses, and more sophisticated gadgets are the way to joy and fulfillment. As a result, we are caught in an absurd, materialistic spiral. The more we make, the more we think we need in order to live decently and respectably. Somehow we have to break this cycle because it makes us sin against our needy brothers and sisters and, therefore, against our Lord. And it also destroys us. Sharing with others is the way to real joy.
Ronald J. SiderIt is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.
Ronald J. SiderTags: education wealth food sin christian poverty hunger brotherhood health-care abomination accumulating-wealth
Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?
Ronald J. SiderTags: style compassion rich wealth christianity necessity fashion christian poverty hunger obedience neighbors luxury
God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.
Ronald J. SiderTags: truth wealth religion bible oppression poverty confession orthodox poor neglect creeds rituals god-s-word
What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!
Ronald J. SiderTags: majority minority wealth christianity tragedy poverty irony hunger starvation affluence
God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.
Ronald J. SiderTags: christianity god anger worship outrage wrath poor taking-advantage prophets
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