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- Posted: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:34:45 +0000
It may be a devotional act but shouldn't a true Christian who is truly trying to follow Christ be spending there time trying to help others and make the world a better place? And shouldn't they most deffinately give up a hobbie that is costing them a lot of money to be able to give that money to the poor considering that there are people in the world who will die tommorrow from starvation? How can any true Christian justify keeping that money to use for there personal pleasure rather than donating it to save a life?
Honestly, you sound like you are hinging your entire arguement on a No True Scotsman fallacy.
But you know what, each person is only one person. They can give everything the have and solve a problem for a day. They can also spend time and money to work towards systemic change. A hobby, in the long run, is helpful towards your mental health. And hobbies don't need to be wasteful either.
Keeping yourself healthy keeps you around for another day for cultivating social justice.
Theres my point, people like to claim there just one person, they can't save the world so they will go ahead and have fun, but from what Christ says in the bible we should all be giving up everything we can but the mere basics we need to survive, and maybe if all of the christians in the west did follow this idea the combined money they could gather together would surely add up to enough to make some monumental change to the truly poor around the world, and if they were using there time to do purely productive deeds we'd have far stronger countries and economies ourselves. It seems to add up that if everyone truly followed Jesus command to the young rich ruler:
“One thing you still lack; sell all that you possess, and distribute it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me."
We'd have a fairer world and stronger countries and communities ourselves.