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I do not reply to the messages of people who use crude and abusive language - except Tex, in his present predicament, and that is only because I have been called by God to help. Accordingly I do not intend to reply to any of your angry bile. Further, you say that capitalism increases welfare, but if you knew anything about comparative economic systems, as the subject is called at my daughter's school, although I'm not sure if that title is used generally, you would know that pure capitalism has no welfare; only dog-eat-dog competition, selfish individualism and empty materialism. More importantly, income does not equal wellbeing, which is said to be the more important indicator of the good life, even in the narrow earthly terms you choose to limit yourself to. So with abroader comparative economic perspective in conjunction with the Truth of the spiritual realm as He has revealed it, ask yourself afresh whether the money changers were well-off, or just rich? And what was their ultimate plight? Look to His word and you will find that answer; and ask yourself about how well-off are the rich men around you who have taken not the path to His love but the path of darkness. Look at Tex, and the one that goes by the name Strawman, and see what happens to the human spirit when one has chosen not the river of love but the torrent of darkness. You speak of the importance of riches in this mortal life, but is not the man without money, but with friends and family and love, infinitely "richer" than the rich but despised man? And do not dismiss the everafter either, for it is ultimately far more important than the here and now. You may have some statistics for this "mortal life", even though they're the wrong ones, but you have nothing on the everafter; yet as we know from His Love expressed through His Words in His Book, it is easier to canoe through the eye of a storm than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Where do you think Kerry Packer is now: is he in heaven, or is he in fact feeling the heat? This is not to say that one should not focus on men's mortal lives, as you suggest, but your "data" is only about money, not about the things that really matter. As the one who lacks the framework for meaningful analysis, it is you who is the ignorant fool.
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