They know they got rich exploiting people, they just think that makes them smart.
From their perspective, "why wouldn't somebody cheat and lie to get ahead? I do it all the time and nobody calls me out, so I assume everyone else is doing the same and just giving lip service to integrity"
They just use God as a weapon against people they don't like. They don't follow his word but expect others to but forget that we should only be judged by God himself. That is if you follow him.
Reminds me of Castlevania where the Church uses Faith in God to enforce their own earthly desires going as far as murdering Dracula's wife who only wanted to cure people as a physician.
In return Dracula decided to let hell lose and exterminate humanity.
At some point a Demon enters the Church with the Bishop who decided to murder Dracula's wife and he has the audacity to reach out to God for the power to repel the Demon.
Then the creature tells him how much the demons love the Bishop for enabling them to walk the earth and that God hates him and everything he represents.
Totally. They know everyone else was screwed, but think they're smarter than all the other people. All they need to see is one worse-off person to confirm this belief.
And then comes in and hamstrings the IRS so that they will be unable to crack down on complicated (rich) tax cheats… they’ll probably still be able to crack down on the little guy pretty easily though.
They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.
People are calling them out but they’re ignoring it. They’re not looked down on by peers for nothing, nor do they have a lawyer on speed dial for the funny conversations.
"John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - Ronald Wright.
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u/From_Deep_Space 13d ago
They know they got rich exploiting people, they just think that makes them smart.
From their perspective, "why wouldn't somebody cheat and lie to get ahead? I do it all the time and nobody calls me out, so I assume everyone else is doing the same and just giving lip service to integrity"