Stock Markets Exposed

Christians: what do you think of our business/money centered world, where stocks matter more than good will?

Stocks, business, making money, using people's ideas and minds for advertising, science, greed, money,...how everything is about deadlines, budgets, work, money, trade, business, stocks, basically our whole reality at least in 1st world countries, America, etc? I mean how does a Christian, a true Christian, live in a reality like that? It's a reality that many people, if not most people care about money first, success, business, sex, pleasure, self-gain, not exactly in that order, and then of course, the nature and tide of business (which is where the stock market comes in), and basically...how this whole reality is basically completely and totally godless, and it's only purpose seems to be to get "rich" and what not. This mentallity, and this business/money reality is basically completely god-devoid, and all about itself,which makes people who are enslaved to the system basically 24/7/365 thinking only about money, profit, money, profit, business, and that stuff. Modern society has already morphed into that. We're too busy paying bills, buying things, getting cars, fixing up our cars, going to doctors,..and in the free time that we do have, we check out other people because we want to have sex, dine on delicious foods, watch movies, and all that other stuff, and have absolutely NO time leftover for anything else, such as perhaps QUESTIONING, even if you don't believe, simply QUESTIONING this reality that we live in, questioning why we do the things we do, what we value, and all of that. If you ask me, as I've questioned, I've realized that this world makes no logical sense, it's like a whole huge world of craziness because most people are either too stupid or too morally deprived, to really care or understand or comphrehend that much of our world is a godless, greedy, and disguisting place. :sigh: Not to say that everyone is like that or what not, but most people eventually want to "get ahead" or have great lives for themselves and their family and they discover that the way to do that is to master the system, play the system, beat the system, run the system, marry into it, or whatever means they can......nothing to do with God by the way, and then many of them make excuses like "oh GOd would want me to be rich," and all that other stuff, meanwhile they're thinking and doing all sorts of ungodly acts and deeds to get to where they want to. Basically, total hypocrisy. That's our American society. Total hypocrisy. People flashing crucifixes and proclaiming to be godly, but yet truly aren't and worship the dollar more. How do you,and those who are truly Christian, really handle this world?

Public Comments

1. I believe that the Bible warns us that the love of money is the root of all evil. How true this is.
2. God is the one that will handle it.
3. I think, ironically enough, the more money a person has, the more selfish that person becomes.
4. And yet Christians overwhelmingly support capitalism rather than communism which is much closer the church in Acts.... But then again, is this picture that you paint the reality or are your perceptions being influenced by your beliefs and what you think you should (or are told you) see? I'd say that your word picture is rendered like any art, a depiction of what the artist wants the viewer to see and not an objective analysis of what actually is.
5. God said if we love the world the love of the Father is not in us. I think rich people can be followers of Jesus too but not many of them. Some people God is money. It just depends on what we do with our money and how we earned it in the beginning. If it was through cheating others and greed and hurting others to get it, then it is sinful.