This piece of text is not by a Jew or a Muslim. It's by an American Christian of the tradition known as Evangelicals or Non-Conformists, and she is of Chinese heritage.
He provides for the poor—through those He has made rich and will make rich, not by making the poor rich.
Because He knows the poor can’t handle riches. The one-talent servant can’t even steward one talent, let alone five.
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He does not make the poor rich—He makes the rich provide for the poor.
How much free will do you actually have within God’s will?
https://alicebythepalm.substack.com/p/how-much-free-will-do-you-actually
Is that really what the Bible says?
He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away
[Luke 1:53]
Compatible, but not identic.
What exactly is the problem with above?
Because He knows the poor can’t handle riches.
There are many takes on what handling riches means, and not all of them are from God.
As to those that are, God is not necessarily finding them in every person that is poor.
Some people are actively impoverished.
And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name
[Apocalypse (Revelation) 13:17]
Allowing me to do business as a writer and allowing me to do business as a trader is two different things. Because trader and writer are two different things.
People who want to make rich people provide for me, while pretending I can't handle riches, are observing, very correctly, I'm not cut and dried for success as a trader.
Can I mention something? Writer and trader is not the same thing. Oh, I already said it? Well, some people need to hear it more than once. If you know such a person, would you like to read this whole essay aloud to them, please!
A guitarrist in the street doesn't waste money by spending things on his guitar or on buying sheet music to vary his repertoir. He might even find youtubes and other online music* useful to learn pieces by ear. As a street singer, I did. Now my voice is broken.
A writer is not misspending his money by buying time on the internet.
Now, Alice said another thing too:
And if the rich get puffed up, forget the Lord their God, and think in their hearts that it is by their own power that they have become rich—and then withhold money from giving and tithing and hoard treasures to their own hurt—
then God will judge them, humble them, and take away all they have—and, very often, their health and even their lives.
How exactly could I, as a writer, have earned money these past years since Covid started?
- Step 1: get to know people and be available in one place so people can get to know you — curfews and injunctions to stay in one place, plus the place I will have to leave by January fixed that part;
- Step 2: get lots of young people ideally of Christian or French culture to read you.
- Step 3: lets some of these discover that printing me and making money from that is an option at least as valid as going to high school.
Steps two and three is where things were going the wrong way. Even up to reversing step one, partly.
Some of the guys who have welcomed me were Jews, some Muslims, some Evangelicals, some Novus Ordo "ordinary" Catholics "as they are nowadays" and some more.
And loads of them were allergic to my writings.
They decided that I should have no readers or printers, that the young should huddle into high schools, universities, charities and work for someone else and especially keep away from reading me.
And persons, not least ladies, I used to be able to speak to have become less and less available. For some of them, they were just available while they hoped I'd ditch Christianity or Catholicism, ar at the very least a traddy Catholicism, which appreciates Franco.
Hasn't happened.
Or that I should ditch Pope Michael I, now Pope Michael II, and go to SSPX or people around the Cassaciacum thesis.**
Hasn't happened.
But where this has taken place, the country has had wild fires, inundations, high school strikes now going on riot since last weekend, and then a country replying with curfews.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Sts Chrysanthus and his wife Daria
22 Oct. 2026
Romae sanctorum Martyrum Chrysanthi et Dariae uxoris, qui, post multas, quas sub Celerino Praefecto pro Christo sustinuerunt, passiones, a Numeriano Imperatore jussi sunt via Salaria in Arenario deponi, atque viventes illic terra et lapidibus obrui.
* https://ingeb.org/
** Materialiter, non formaliter. As far as I know a Pope can only twice be in that position: 1) after he is elected and before he agrees, 2) when he is dead (a corpse is a material, but not a formal, man).
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