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Re: Misssionaries With God Complexes
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Originally Posted by Owl
I suppose the comparisons are necessary when one considers the amount of whining about how lazy and selfish we Americans are. It's hard to listen to the guilt trips when there's nothing left to give.
Oh, and I promise you I feel no guilt.
Again, if a pastor had posted that Americans were lazy and selfish givers he would have been tarred and feathered. Every one would have called him an ungrateful money-grubber. All of AFF would have descended upon him like a pack of hungry wolves.
It's all about perspective. I'm sorry yours is so narrow.
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And I'm sorry that you've decided to behave in such a disappointing way. 
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To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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