• pimento64@sopuli.xyz
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      23 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.