Prosperity And The Pope

摘要

That Christianity is skeptical about wealth and commerce is an understatement. One of the most quoted stories about Jesus ends with him telling his disciples that it is harder for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Despite the efforts of many Christian theologians to explain passages such as this, there has long been a flavor in Christianity implying that the poor are somehow virtuous and the rich will get their comeuppance.