One of my favorite New Testament passages is where Jesus compares the chances of a rich man entering heaven to be about the same as a camel passing through the eye of a needle.
As children enrolled in a parochial grammar school we assumed and believed (and the misnamed Sisters of Charity allowed us to continue to persist in our mistake) that this meant (ha! ha!) God loved the poor and that no one of wealth was going to heaven. Or not.
In a little more than two thousand years, we went from "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin" to Religions, Inc.
I, of so little faith, can't help but wonder what Jesus might make of a list like this, or how He'd react to His servant, (Bishop) Lamor Miller-Whitehead (together with his wife) who was a victim last weekend of a seven-figure armed robbery. Mysterious Ways, meet Render Unto Caesar.
There is no truth to reports that the Bishop smokes Camels.
-bill kenny
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