Latter Day Sinner

There is a very pervasive myth that poor people are better than rich people. The idea is that the poor are more generous, more honest, and more decent. Poverty is in this sense being praised. In Traditional Christianity this sentiment is overt. Rich people can’t enter heaven. Give everything you have away to feed the poor (and thus become poor yourself). I am coming to regard that as poverty thinking. Everyone I know says they don’t want to be poor, but they hold to the belief that not only are the poor better but also that there are not enough of the good things in life for everyone to have a share. Certainly all resources are scarce but work and innovation makes more necessities and fulfills more desires. I want to rise above poverty thinking. I want to create abundance and live with the abundance I have created. That would be awesome.