Turner's net worth increased by a tidy one billion dollars in the first nine months of 1997 alone. They're going to be hearing from me about giving money away. See, Jesus put the rich on notice long before Ted Turner did. Although I suspect that Jesus' views on wealth sit rather uncomfortably beside our own, he didn't have a problem with material goods. Yet Jesus saw a clear priority between goods and people.
Goods are here in order to serve the needs and celebrate the joys of people.
Jesus seems to discern that in his day the powerful sought even to sacralize injustice, employing the Sabbath to keep oppression in place. Now Ted Turner can claim the spotlight. And now the God of justice can be quietly kept back in the shadows. The early church fathers knew this well. Surely not because God doesn't love the rich, though perhaps it begins in that the rich may find it difficult to love God.