[Hollis-H]

One of the basic tenets of ancient Judaism was that God favored the good people with material success and punished the bad with ill health, poverty and bad luck. In spite of the best attempts of Jesus, this attitude grafted itself onto Christianity and hence our civilization. We still speak of ourselves as ‘blessed’ if we are rich, happy and healthy. At some level we probably see the successful and powerful as tight with God and hence entitled to extra respect. The attitude is wrong: at the most basic level our situation is largely dumb luck (where we were born, the wealth of our parents, our inherited set of talents, etc.), and attributing all that to a beneficent God puts a not-so-beneficient face on God from the viewpoint of the poor. That just can’t be right.

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Name : Hollis-H, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 66, City : Kansas City, State : MO, Country : United States, Occupation : Mediator, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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