Is It Wrong to Be a Cultured Individual? - Herbert W Armstrong - March 1978

Herbert W Armstrong

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - Is it wrong to be a cultured individual? Is it wrong - is it extravagant - to purchase quality things? Some people pride themselves on lack of culture and good breeding. They actually brag: "We're just poor folks." They spurn good-quality merchandise, saying, "That's too rich for my blood." They shop for bargain prices, condemning better quality as "extravagance." They accuse a well-dressed person of being "stuck up." Does God love the poor and hate the rich? People speak of "God's poor." Must one be poor economically, ignorant educationally, uncouth socially, in order to please God? It's true Jesus said, "How hardly shall1hey that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!" (Mark 10:23.) But He also clarified His statement by adding: "How hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!" (Verse 24.) In this world we have the poor, the ignorant, the uncouth and the uncultured. And at the other extreme we have the rich, the social snobs, the intellectuals. What is right? - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library