There are over 20,000,000 blogs on the internet. Please go visit one of them since Hicktown obviously is not the blog for you.

Lynn

If you finish the sentence you quoted you’ll see I was referring to what they did as opposed to them as individuals. But you’re right, I should’ve said “whilst their actions were quite obviously stupid and reckless”.

I would point out though that I didn’t accuse everyone of hypocrisy, there were, as I said, a select few who seemed to have a balanced view. However the majority of comments, in my opinion, were very harsh and derogatory, which I found to be hypocritical since the Bible was being so heavily quoted and there wasn’t much forgiveness or empathy being offered for people of a fellow faith in such a distressing situation. I find it frustrating that so many professed Christians are very quick to use scripture to point out another’s weaknesses and shortcomings. Stones and glass houses come to mind, since we’re all full of faults and time and unforeseen occurrence befall us all.

Interesting to me how you chose to gloss over the actual content of my post with defensiveness. Still you’re right, i did just roll up here and since it seems different opinions are written off as mere foolishness here in HicksTown, you’re right I think my time would be better spent elsewhere.

You obviously have a lot of time you your hands. Why not spend it on another blog, where they have time to entertain your foolishness.

First of all, you can’t trust everything you read in the media.

Secondly, whilst these people were quite obviously stupid and reckless to use such a gift the way they did, making stupid mistakes or being naive or ignorant to certain dangers when you feel blessed doesn’t make a person less God fearing or even less worthy in the first place. Yes there are bible principles which could’ve been applied here that would’ve prevented these things and it’s evident that they were carried away with the thought of what they could have. But humans are prone to err, we make mistakes, sometimes and definitely in this case big ones. If the level of “black or white” judgement leveled on this blog was used by God then nobody would stand a chance.

I would also add that a lack of education or teeth for that matter has little to do with a person’s worth or standing before their God.

All I’ve heard here (apart from a select few) is self satisfied hypocrisy and straight up cruelness. Surely in this case the passages about brotherly affection, forgiveness and sympathy would be more applicable? Perhaps the majority of you have failed to read them.

Nothing agitates me more than having someone come in here telling folks who to pray for. I pick and choose my own prayer list. If you desire to pray for them, fine, but don’t tell anyone else who to pray for. That’s not your place. And no one here is kicking them. They kicked their own selves via their ignorance.

I myself will not judge them because I’ve made some stupid mistakes myself when it came to money due to a “lack of knowledge”. But I took responsibilty for my actions and DID NOT BLAME GOD nor others. I also learned from those mistakes and got on a path to educate myself when it comes to financial matters. It is hard when you weren’t taught how to correctly handle money, but in the midst of getting knowledge, sometimes there are some hard lessons to learn. The key is to learn from your mistakes and if you are ever blessed to have such an opportunity again, try not to blow it.

I pray they will not end up homeless and in the midst of it all, they get knowledge and education when it comes to financial matters.

First of all,GOD has nothing to do with the foolish mistakes that the Harpers made. Let’s not put this on God, okay?

God is not cruel enough to TAKE a family’s home, knowing they need a place for shelter and well being.

I don’t need to judge the Harpers. Their ignorance if obvious.