The Real Difference Between Rich And Poor…

Posted on March 11, 2012 in Images

As stated in the Christian Science Monitor many Americans place negative moral judgments on individuals based solely on their income level. And as the quote above illuminates, when the rich rob the poor, it’s called business. When the poor right back, it’s called violence.”

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http://pjbrown66@gmail.com pa joe

Part of this disdain for the poor came about during the shift towards the Gospel of Prosperity that has been preached by christian evangelicals since the 1920s in America. Its roots go back even further and commingles with the idea of American Empire and of American exceptionalism.
Billbb

Yes, Pa. It’s a direct descendant of the Calvinists who were part of the founding of our country. The rich are rich because God wants them to be rich, the poor are poor because God wants them to be poor, and to try to intervene and lift the poor out of their poverty is to interfere with the will of God.

The current battle against the social safety net is that creed playing out in modern times.
- http://pjbrown66@gmail.com pa joe
  
  Speaking of the social safety net, it seems most Americans were for it until brown people became eligible for the same benefits.
- Dan
  
  That is the most asinine caricature of Calvinism I have ever read.

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