Please stop hurling wild accusations like this. Stop making things up as if you can read minds or are some cheap psychic. I do not make a lot of money and still manage to accomplish some good with what I've been given. I deliver newspapers -- and that income has been declining. I also used to deliver pizzas but haven't for a few months now. I may start that again. Between the income from papers and Social Security, I haven't been adding much lately to the Kiva account. I live in a house where the mortgage payment was $250 a month -- and now it's paid off. I never bought a new car in my life, preferring cheaper used ones. I am not envious of other people. I've been around rich people, know what they're like. I know their material possessions don't make them happy. In a way I do regret never being rich however since if I was rich I could afford to do more charity; but I've managed to do some. Check out my profile at Kiva if you want.
Lender > Kerry from Carlisle, PA, United States | Kiva
Check out who I lend to. It delights me to lend to people. When they pay back their loans (if they do), the money gets lent to someone else. You've no idea what you're talking about. I lent once to a man in Yemen who needed a solar power unit so his children could study at night. I knew there was the possibility that the war would affect him, that he might not be able to pay it back. I lent to him anyway, thinking, "If I don't do it, who will?" The war must have hit him. He didn't pay it back. I felt sorry for him, not myself. It also meant I had less money to lend to someone else. I like to lend to Muslims too since I think it helps them feel that Christians don't hate them. Maybe my loans to Muslims will help ease those tensions between Islam and Christianity . . . just a little.
Then there was the woman (I think it was a woman) in the Philippines. The island she lived on got hit by a hurricane. I was amazed she was able to repay the loan. Her honesty impressed me. I asked God to bless her; and I was also grateful to get the money back since then I could lend it again.
Have you ever allowed a homeless person to live with you? I have, more than once. So spare me the accusatory sermons. This thread was allegedly about Copeland and Duplantis. If you want to discuss "works", why not discuss the jets and mansions? Are those good works? You cannot defend such excess, so you attack me and others as a distraction. Somehow you've managed to turn it into an ugly discussion about me, Mary and perhaps some other members by calling names. Why not stay on topic? Why make things personal?
Why not discuss how these people flaunt their wealth? Is that a "good work"? I think not.
