Blog September 16, 2009

Today's blog shows a video of how a pastor says how the things are given to us in the world to show we don't need them. I agree to a point but, like I previously discussed in a class, the more money you have, the more "necessities" you have in today's society. I can understand that what he's saying is don't rely on material items for your entire life. It kind of sounds like a smoker saying, I smoke to prove that I don't need it, because I only smoke sometimes.

Whether he uses that money that is provided to him by "God" for his own selfish purposes or for the better of other people, he still needs it to do those things. Churches need money, maybe not in heaven or wherever, but on the earth, in this country, today...money IS what makes the world go round, well it's one of the main factors in it. It's only so important BECAUSE people want it, if no one considered money important like he says in this video, it would through society off, the farmers wouldn't make food for others, public transportation systems would stop, everyone would stop working because why do we work, for money that is. Money is overused a lot of the time, but I find that it's a genius creation to make other people to things for others. It's just paper, without how important people considered it, it would be worth next to nothing

So when I see someone saying things like money, houses, cars, etc you don't need, it's true you don't need..but it's kind of like juts wanting to be a rebel for society, but this guy obviously has other reasons in mind. If he didn't have any money, he wouldn't of made that video, if christian charities don't have money, they can't help others. If you think about it no matter how selfish you are, as long as you participate in working, gaining money, and spending it, you're cooperating with the whole system, and ultimately helping others. If you're incapable of gaining a career because you didn't study enough in school, or maybe money is the problem, or who knows, then you get a less-paying job, we can't all get the high paying jobs, but even the people who are maybe company executives, or lawyers, still need people to make their food, build there houses, etc. Well at least that how it works in today's world, it could work otherwise, but to me there's no point in imagining how it works any other way, because that doesn't train me for the future.