God Doesn't Care About Income Inequality

Here’s an idea: let’s stop obsessing over “income inequality.” It changes nothing for the better, and it makes us feel bad.

There is, after all, no biblical basis for doing it. Comparing levels of income is not a means of practicing compassion. Indeed, cultivating indignation over income disparities is too often made a substitute for actual compassion. Compassion is directed at our fellow humans individually, in their specific situations, and on a spiritual level. Theorizing about income disparities, on the other hand, is a mental exercise that approaches the humans in the equation as if they were abstractions.