Reply #41: I think the irony is that pseudo-Christianity is embracing wealth.

[RevCheesehead]

I still don't understand how people can be obsessed with material wealth and still claim to know and understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They apparently don't read his words, because Jesus spends more time talking about money and economic justice than any other subject (except the Kingdom of God, of course). And Jesus never once mentions homosexuality. He spent time hanging out with tax collectors, prostitutes and sinners. He abhorred the religious mainstream of his day, calling them "a brood of vipers."

I begin to think that the monastics were right when they called for a lifestyle of poverty, chastity, and obedience. When you live in THAT reality, you begin to see the rest of the world in a whole new way. (and I think I know whereof I speak!)