![]() ![]() Yet coming from a man who was anything but a “greed is good” ideologue, this prudence is all the more compelling: Given this uncompromising attitude, it may seem surprising that Chrysostom opposed the forceful redistribution of wealth by the state, not only as ultimately ineffective, but even as morally harmful to society. A particularly pungent passage from one of his homilies: “Do you pay such honor to your excrements as to receive them into a silver chamber-pot when another man made in the image of God is perishing in the cold?” He went so far as to say that not to give to the poor is to steal from them. He often pricked their consciences regarding both how they got their money and what they did with it. ![]() ![]() John Chrysostom, Church Father and fourth-century Archbishop of Constantinople, was not what you would call a defender of the rich. ![]()
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