http://www.themicahmandate.org/2008/09/i-shop-therefore-i-am-consumerism-and-its-impact-on-christian-life-and-ministry/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:36:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.themicahmandate.org/2008/09/i-shop-therefore-i-am-consumerism-and-its-impact-on-christian-life-and-ministry/comment-page-1/#comment-1098 Hwa Shi-Hsia Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:06:26 +0000 http://temp.themicahmandate.org/?p=304#comment-1098 The reminder of "fasting combined with giving" is a good one. This is because many people, including myself, often fall into thinking that we can atone for our greed in excessive shopping by being extra charitable, in much the same way that some dieters think that eating a bowl of salad magically cancels out the calories from a bowl of fried chicken. The reminder of “fasting combined with giving” is a good one. This is because many people, including myself, often fall into thinking that we can atone for our greed in excessive shopping by being extra charitable, in much the same way that some dieters think that eating a bowl of salad magically cancels out the calories from a bowl of fried chicken.

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