Being Christian consists in realizing that we don’t “owe” God a single thing; it’s not as though, in giving, he’s parted with something, and become poorer or more diminished because of it. I would argue that this perversion of our relationship with God lies at the root of the American Dream, the delusion that the endless pursuit of libertas and... - <a rel="nofollow" href="http://friarw.tumblr.com/... ; title="http://friarw.tumblr.com/... ;