{"id":2123,"date":"2018-05-08T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T04:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/welcometable\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2018-05-08T21:04:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T04:04:26","slug":"the-richest-land-the-poorest-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/welcometable\/2018\/05\/the-richest-land-the-poorest-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Richest Land, the Poorest People"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/313\/2017\/11\/20171107_061254.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2058\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/313\/2017\/11\/20171107_061254-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When God was distributing wealth to all the nations on the earth, he fell asleep in the Congo and gems, minerals, oil, precious everything, fell out of his pocket.\u00a0 Thus, the land became the richest land on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Does it follow that the richest land would summon the greatest greed?<\/p>\n<p>We know why the people are poor.\u00a0 Now, what can be done about it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/313\/2017\/11\/20171107_061101.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2059\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/313\/2017\/11\/20171107_061101-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When God was distributing wealth to all the nations on the earth, he fell asleep in the Congo and gems, minerals, oil, precious everything, fell out of his pocket.\u00a0 Thus, the land became the richest land on earth. 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