I was completely surrounded by Christians at school and at work, yet I'd never met a Christian who ever heeded Jesus' words in the New Testament to "take everything you have and give it to the poor, for it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven." I recall that, the richer a Christian was, the more he was admired by his fellow Christians. As a matter of fact most of the priests I knew were proactive social climbers, and the rich Christians they hobnobbed with were only too obliging to wine and dine and pamper them--it was their way of "owning" them.

The poor Christians themselves never complained, believing they were destined to be on the receiving end. And yet, that was something that never happened, because, over the years, the poor not only remained poor, they also became poorer and poorer, Christians or not.