Greedy?

Who is guilty of being greedy?

 

The person or company accused

 

OR the greedy accuser?

 

– eab, 6/8/10

“Godliness with contentment is great gain.” 1Ti 6.6.

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ALTITUDE and ATTITUDE

Altitude and attitude are similar in sound.

Altitude may be that mere distance from the ground;

But your attitude about life, its up and its down,

Will decide your spiritual altitude, in ways quite profound,

These are more similar perhaps, than they sound.   

                – eab, Jun. ’00

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Thomas Paine – death, June 8, 1809

Thomas Paine died this date, 6/8/1809, wrote Age of Reason, Common Sense at age 72.

The following give insights into the less than desirable views of Paine.

“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

“The christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.”

“Each of those churches show certain books, which they call revelation, or the word of God. The Jews say, that their word of God was given by God to Moses, face to face; the Christians say, that their word of God came by divine inspiration: and the Turks say, that their word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from Heaven. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all.”

“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”

“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.”

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