• pimento64@sopuli.xyz
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    11 days ago

    People like that, who almost universally profess Christian faith, should be attentive to the words of the early Church fathers on the intrinsically corrupting nature of wealth:

    “The rich are in possession of the goods of the poor, even if they have acquired them honestly or inherited them legally.”
    — John Chrysostom

    “You are not making a gift of your possession to the poor person. You are handing over to him what is his.”
    — Ambrose of Milan

    “The property of the wealthy holds them in chains […] which shackle their courage and choke their faith and hamper their judgment and throttle their souls. They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.”
    —Cyprian

    And for a direct Bible passage, it’s hard to be more succinct than James.