I may be a little dense, but please explain to me how government IMPOSES poverty. Obviously government did not IMPOSE poverty on me and it apparently was not IMPOSED upon you. So who is it imposed upon and how is it imposed? Thank you for being patient with me! Look at the graph in the O.P. while r...

The "homeless" people you speak of are homeless due to their own addictions of mental illnesses. They are surrounded by the opulence they could be taking part of. You are writing on this computer ... you are not homeless. So are you (and the others on this site) somehow being propped up b...

stephen martin fritz wrote:
The poor today live better than kings lived throughout most of history. .

Name the kings you know of that were homeless and whose income was close to what the graph in the O.P. shows.

Regards
DL

ralfy wrote:If you're Catholic, you can follow the Daily Roman Missal and after three years get to read almost all of it.

Another option is the Great Adventure Catholic Bible.

Are you reading those as myth or literally and as history?

Regards
DL

DavidPugh

Thanks for this.

Look to Jewish cabalist traditions and you will get quite a view of a better way of thinking about gods.

The only god you can ever know is you.

Regards
DL

To control the masses means controlling their purse and that is what Christianity is all about. If you read the older Judaic beliefs, you will find that they had an esoteric shamanistic sect that Jesus likely trained under and that is why the quotes above seem so Buddhist like. I see Jesus as a Gnos...

I found the Gospel of Thomas a handy quick reference to the sayings of Jesus http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html Even better I'd recommend Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings (Seastone) Paperback – January 12, 1999 by Marcus Borg. It really helps to give weight to the theory that Jesus spent ...

That was sarcasm. For the record, I do not believe it's the government's job to help the rich stay rich. I'm surprised, and a bit saddened, that the statement was taken seriously. Perhaps if you worked on the delivery and would remember that on the net, you will find all kinds of stupidity. I do no...

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is thinking along those lines... "The Freedom Dividend is a form of universal basic income (UBI), a type of social security that guarantees a certain amount of money to every citizen within a given governed population, without having to pass a test...

t I agree that we need the rich. I do not agree that the governments should insure that particular rich people should be helped to remain rich. The survival of the fittest rules our evolution and it should not be a government. Let the rich compete and live or die by their wits. Regards DL That was ...