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Most people feel a need for a higher power in their lives--"something greater than myself." What's the cause of this need? The expression I just cited explains it all: A lack of self-regard. People who love life for what it is feel, as an interconnected part of this love of life, a love for themselves. This isn't narcissism. This is a love of the actual and the possible. Religion and the Pope feed a love of the unreal and the impossible. Religion and socialism-collectivism (in all its various forms) are the two main ways that people seek to find something "greater than myself." Speaking for myself, I'm just fine with life and myself. Sadly, most will take their pick between the mystical strongman and the material strongman. Pope or dictator...neither one is for me. How about you?

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Celebrities: Shut Up

It's really in poor taste for people with a lot of money to publicly tell people with a lot less money how they should be more charitable. This is what most of our celebrities do. These are people who have lots more money than average. Instead of dealing with their own guilt issues, they go out in public and proclaim that "we should all give and give until we can give no more." Think about the source here. With the typical celebrity, you're talking about someone who has way more money than most of us will ever have. And these are the people who are telling us how to spend ours--whether it's through private charity or, as in many cases with heavy-handed liberal celebrities, much more taxation and restriction of our own expenses.

My advice to really rich people who want to help others: Do so. Use your own judgment. And shut up about it.

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