Comments on: Hope for the World….. http://www.bloggernews.net/112921 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 25 May 2012 07:40:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Nancy Reyes http://www.bloggernews.net/112921#comment-182393 Nancy Reyes Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:10:26 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/112921#comment-182393 I wrote a previous comment, but it disappeared (internet problems I guess). You write a nice sermon but it's no help for those on the front line. Check out the CSMonitor series on Pentecostalism in Latin America. <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/pentecostals/" rel="nofollow">LINK</a> As for increasing the gap between poor and wealthy: That's nonsense. The poor are no poorer than in the past, but now they have TV and can watch the wealthy and resent the corruption of the rich...the way out of poverty is to join the increasingly Protestant middle class...work hard, be honest. And I'm a Catholic and ex missionary.... I wrote a previous comment, but it disappeared (internet problems I guess).

You write a nice sermon but it’s no help for those on the front line.

Check out the CSMonitor series on Pentecostalism in Latin America.
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As for increasing the gap between poor and wealthy: That’s nonsense. The poor are no poorer than in the past, but now they have TV and can watch the wealthy and resent the corruption of the rich…the way out of poverty is to join the increasingly Protestant middle class…work hard, be honest.

And I’m a Catholic and ex missionary….

]]> By: Nancy Reyes http://www.bloggernews.net/112921#comment-182387 Nancy Reyes Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:00:03 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/112921#comment-182387 Pshaw. You preach a beautiful sermon, but it doesn't mean anything. The gap between the rich and poor has always been there. What is occuring now is that the poor are no poorer but there are a lot more middle class and rich, and the poor can afford Television and know how the rest of the world lives... The main problem here is that the church is into liberation theology, and rightly condemns the rich exploiters, but they still see society as feudalism and noblesse oblige. It is the Protestants who are teaching hard work is how one worships the Lord And that is why the Protestant sects are gaining on the Catholics in Latin America and the Philippines. The Christian Science Monitor has a nice series on it <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/pentecostals/" rel="nofollow">LINK</a> Catholics could do the same if they weren't mired into the platitudes of the past...Centissiumus Anno anyone? Pshaw. You preach a beautiful sermon, but it doesn’t mean anything.

The gap between the rich and poor has always been there. What is occuring now is that the poor are no poorer but there are a lot more middle class and rich, and the poor can afford Television and know how the rest of the world lives…

The main problem here is that the church is into liberation theology, and rightly condemns the rich exploiters, but they still see society as feudalism and noblesse oblige.

It is the Protestants who are teaching hard work is how one worships the Lord

And that is why the Protestant sects are gaining on the Catholics in Latin America and the Philippines. The Christian Science Monitor has a nice series on it LINK

Catholics could do the same if they weren’t mired into the platitudes of the past…Centissiumus Anno anyone?

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