The Bible teaches in 1st Timothy 6:8 that we ought to be content with having just food and clothing. This is not a very popular teaching nowadays in America's materialistic society. There have been numerous songs, videos, and children's toy commercials lately featuring the selfish phrase, “I want it all.” The average American child is a spoiled brat nowadays, arrogant, defiant, and brainwashed to hate Christianity in a hateful and ingrate society that loves sin.
If you really stop and think about all the things we pay for in America, we don't need most of them. The definition of “greed” is “the desire to acquire or possess more than one needs or deserves.” We all deserve to burn in Hell; but McDonalds thinks you deserve a break today. People don't need a TV, nor do they need a cellphone, nor do they need a new car, nor do they need all the electronic toys on the market today. What you do need is a King James Bible.
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This is interesting, David, considering how you rant on and on about things that were taken from you. How much your court case cost you, for instance.
If you believed this rant even slightly, you'd be grateful for the court's efforts to streamline you life.
and you'd get off the internet...
The definition of “greed” is “the desire to acquire or possess more than one needs or deserves.”
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Such as that Hawaiian Steel Guitar. Or any kind of audio equipment: from a Nakamichi cassette deck/Technics Class AA amplifier/Denon tuner & Bose speakers, to an average stereo cassette radio.
People don't need a TV, nor do they need a cellphone, nor do they need a new car, nor do they need all the electronic toys on the market today
...or a computer . But you have one, David J. Hypocrite .
You have a KJV. Obviously. I wonder if you've ever cracked yours open to Matthew 19:21...?!
Davie obsessed over churches that won't let him join, he obsessed over a woman he met at the church and imagined a life with her before he even asked her out. He sees himself as a modern day Lot who has everything taken away from him and believes soon God will give him more back. Davie has no right to talk about this issue.
Well Dave, you've stated that you yourself want rather more than just food and clothing. Specifically a wife who'll obey your every command, a church where the pastors take you as an authority on Scripture and for the people on Guam to like you.
As creativerealms said, now I read the other comments.
Also Freddie died in 1991 and "I want it all" (possibly a criticism of such an attitudes) was years before even that.
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People prattle about how Christian culture is guilt-based rather than shame-based, and I guess the Common Law and related national justice systems are, but guilt is something you're supposed to pay off, and paying off your debt sure ain't the fundamentalist attitude towards sin.
Why do you hate capitalism, Davey? And what exactly are you typing this and uploading it to the internet on? Do you need a computer?
And before you trot out the bible as the ultimate authority on morality and materialism, the bible spells out exactly where you can buy slaves and what to do with them once you own them.
Short Eyes, the only use I could ever have for a bible, KJV or other, is parrot cage liner.
Isn't it Kit Kat that says you deserve a break today?
There have been numerous songs, videos, and children's toy commercials lately featuring the selfish phrase, “I want it all"
Where have you been, Davey, that song came out almost 30 years ago!
https://youtu.be/hFDcoX7s6rE
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@Citizen Justin
It was written by Brian May, not Freddie, and it was inspired by his girlfriend (now wife), who apparently often said that phrase. :)
You may be making a valid point, there Davey. I will concede there is more to life than consumer culture.
Then you pull out the usual fundie hypocrite crap! People don't even deserve to burn in the summer sun, let alone in Hell.
@KingofRhye
Interesting stuff. I always thought that Queen were satirising contemporary Yuppies, with that song, hence their business attire.
Note: "Lately" in Dave speak, since the early 1900s or earlier, it's like he pretends greed or selfishness didn't exist when 'everybody was raised in the church'.
Which of course Dave claims there was such a time, the 50s, which oddly probably produced more greed movies, songs and TV then any decade. Because it was an economically booming period. Fundie preachers claim it was because America made God happy back then, always taking credit for others work.
@Titania
Nah, it was more of a message of rebellion and fighting for your goals, etc. Though, if ya look at that video, you'll notice Freddie's clothes are kinda loose/baggy...to hide the fact that he was pretty sick at that time ('89) and had lost a lot of weight.
Yes, Davey, "we ought to be content with having just food and clothing."
Not quite there yet, but definitely on the road to Buddhism. Congratulations!
@KingofRhye
A sad story, that one.
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