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You just need to employ the right strategy to deal with it. Possible options include: 1. Claim that "camel" or "needle" are a mistranslation or symbolic. 2
by kubb 1y ago
You just need to employ the right strategy to deal with it. Possible options include:
1. Claim that "camel" or "needle" are a mistranslation or symbolic.
2. Separate financial life from your spiritual beliefs to avoid inner conflict.
3. View wealth as a sign of God’s blessing or something used to do good, making it feel morally acceptable.
4. Emphasize other passages that support generosity or success.
In general, it's easy to overcome cognitive dissonance in religion. You just accept additional beliefs that soften it.
- lapetitejort 1y agoIn the flavor of religion in which I grew up, it's easier to just quickly pray for forgiveness than to bother justifying anything. The most vile genocidal maniac could pray for thirty seconds right before death and get into heaven. Why bother following rules when someone already served the punishment?
- zahlman 1y ago5. Interpret that the passage, especially in the context of the subsequent verses, is about the need for God to get into heaven. That is; it's claiming that wealth cannot empower people to find their own route in, absent spirituality.