They say there are Chinese gods you can buy—to get what everybody wants:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
+FU—gods for Peace<\/p>\n\n\n\n
+LU—gods for Success<\/p>\n\n\n\n
+SHU—gods for Longevity<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I heard about this from Allister Begg on American Family Radio (afr.net)—“You can buy them on the airline, if you’re gullible enough to spend $150.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Would we be so naive to actually buy something so ridiculous?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Actually, yes, we would—we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Peace—People spend lots of money on insurance to ‘buy peace’ against loss of stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – – <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Success—People earn lots of money and invest in portfolios to ‘show success.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Longevity—People sacrifice to accumulate\/save\/stash\/preserve for retirement, to somehow ‘enhance longevity.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
They say there are Chinese gods you can buy—to get what everybody wants: +FU—gods for Peace +LU—gods for Success +SHU—gods for Longevity – – – I heard about this from Allister Begg on American Family Radio (afr.net)—“You can buy them on the airline, if you’re gullible enough to spend $150.” – – – Would we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-financial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}