Reply #20: There is a most wonderful irony, a most wonderful poetic justice [View All]

[Joe Chi Minh]

about the reality of the situation between the rich and the poor (at least generically speaking - one can only generalise, naturally) that the World and its minions can never seem to get get their heads around, and yet it cries out in the Gospels and indeed most of scripture, again and again.

On Judgment Day, Nadine and kdmorris, it won't be simply a matter of redressing the injustices perpetrated by the more heartless among the rich or comfortably off, but rather, people will be seen in their true light. And it will become transparently clear that, all along, it was mostly they, the poor, oppressed and vilified, who lived lives of extraordinary dignity and honour; who were examples of true religion - as many young missionaries have been moved, even awe-struck to discover. So, take heart, when you hear the cheap lies of the truly cheap people about people who may be materially poor, but are rich in honour, decency and faith - which latter may not be formal in nature, as Christ's description of the Last Judgment between the sheep and the goats makes clear.