Poverty and Religion
In the parable of the talent (Matthew 25:14-30), the distribution of the talents was diverse; some received more than others. This is a fact not an evil; Equality is not a godly concept, equity is.
Interestingly, in the parable, the person who is chastised is the one who refused to put his talents to productive purpose and ironically, it happens to be the one with the least talent.
What is this telling us?
1) Part of the drama and risk of human life is that we must learn how to produce a sufficiency and an abundance of what we need.
2) Wealth those not exist, talent those. Wealth is created using talent, work and discipline.
3)Not every idea, work or technique produces abundance or wealth.
There is this vibe I get from some religious folks; it is as if the believe poverty is noble and wealth is sin. They come up with every crafty invention to justify the existence of poverty and to denigrate wealth creation as if anything is wrong with it. Maybe this is so because to some, poverty becomes the last refuge of meaning in their world already devoid of any form of purpose. That why you hear many say with delight, “I work for the poor” what those that even mean?
A consequence of this is that the poor are hardly seen as lacking good initiative, or good judgment, or the will for ordinary hard work, but rather as the legitimation of organization for service, a service that only seek to give fish and bread and hardly tries to teaching on how to fish and bake.
Another wrong is tell people that the reason the rich are rich is because of destiny or that they are involve in a great crime, or that the engage in ritual sacrifice to the devil or that it is because of their prayers and donation in God. Instead teach them that the rich are rich rather because they know how to be productive, because they have the discipline, values, energies, opportunities, talents, and desires to be some-thing other than poor. And the best chance the poor have in escaping their poverty is the rich. Again, the last thing the poor need is a religion or an ethic that suggests to them that their poverty is due to the limitation of world resources, or to the moral failure of others or even the on foreseen hand of a deity.
Work produced wealth, wealth had to be spent for beauty or charity or more capital, if nobody has anything, nothing can be freely given up and if nothing can be given up, charity, an element of religious sacrifice becomes meaningless. Then we all we exist in collective misery. Moreover, if we have nothing, we cannot reveal our character in the way we use our wealth and goods.
Again, It is most contemptuous to tell the poor who want to get rid of his poverty that it’s is all right to be where they are. Godliness and contentment must be a voluntary act and you can only be content in what you have acquired/achieved. No man is contented with nothing.
The truth is that the actual poor are only interested in those who have learnt how not to be poor. Those who volunteered (some actually do) to be poor should know this. Poverty is meaningless if not volunteered. In fact, the concept of religious poverty as practice by some monk is to show that worldly goods, however defined or accumulated, are not by themselves adequate to satisfy the human spirit. After all, man shall not live by bread alone.
Although poverty might indicate a sacrifice of what otherwise might be, it can also mean a failure to learn how to improve the world. It is true that not every system, ideas or endeavor will produce wealth; nevertheless, what is most needed is an accurate understanding of how wealth came to be, that abundance at its best is a natural result of man's relationship to the world when he uses his mind and his hand and it is good that these come about.
Having said this, what everyone should keep in mind is that the virtuous are not necessarily the rich or the poor, but those who, rich or poor, have chosen the right things in their lives. Living right is righteousness

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