In thinking about what I wrote in the last entry, I wanted to state for the record that I am aware that my petty bourgeoisie troubles are nothing compared to what many of my Christian brothers around the world are forced to endure. For example, there are Christians in Africa that are more devout than any American ever thought of being and yet they go to bed hungry every night and they don't have enough clean water, etc. This is why when I read in the Old Testament about how the righteous are to prosper, it stretches the limits of my faith, because these Christians only experience prosperity in the spiritual sense and this life is hell for them.
So one can absolutely agree with scripture that the righteous do prosper--except that no one is actually righteous.
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