PinkHaired: I think you're missing my point. I don't have a problem w/ Christians wearing jewellery or anything like that. The church I used to go to when I was a kid, a lot of adults would wear jewellery. Christians don't have to give all their money to the poor or dress down to be humble.
My argument was actually the tele-envangelists that get on TV and tell you to donate money to give to the poor or to help God's word... but in reality, they are using it to buy themselves expensive clothes and jewellery or live a luxury lifestyle. A perfect example of this is Jim and Tammie Baker from the mid-80s. It is well known that they used money people dontated to them to live the life of luxury. People sent them money on the basis that they were helping the poor... but in fact they were lining the pockets of these two.
That is what I am against... I would donate my money to a repuatable cause (Christian or non-Christian), but I do not want to risk giving my money to someone who is going to spend it themselves. And although these types of tele-evangelists are not as common as they were, they still exist, and it is simply exploiting the Christian religon and exploiting people.
Abe Babe...
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