{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"jimmysong wrote","author_name":"jimmysong (npub10v…psp42)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"I was asked a while back whether I would be richer if I wasn't Christian. The main implication being that there are so many immoral ways to make money that Christian values prevent. And while I agree that there are ways to make money that are closed off to me, there are also ways to lose money that were closed off, too.\n\nThere are a lot of monetary pit traps in the world today. There's all kinds of addictions that can destroy your balance sheet, drugs, sugar, power, games, etc. Christians exercise self-denial muscles through God's grace. So in that sense, I think I've been saved from the many ways in which I could have lost my stack.\n\nTo hold is hard. And it requires a lot of self-denial. If you want to hold, Christianity is a sort of super-power."}