Maybe they compare themselves to people who are even richer than they are, so in their eyes they are not rich, but those who have less money will view them as so.

Those people do NOT see themselves as rich. You do.

I’ve been told I’m rich very often, and I respond the same way because I do not feel rich at all. I feel poor.

There are people who should be called poor tha think they are rich and I don’t know why about that either.

Many people–Christian and non-Christian alike–spend the money they make almost as fast as it comes in. So when they say they aren’t rich, they are thinking only in terms of how much money is left when all the bills for that month are paid, not how much money actually comes in. Also, I don’t think that many folks in this country realize that compared with most people all over the world, we would -all- be considered wealthy. I can dumpster-dive after the end of a college semester and find enough good, usable stuff to furnish a couple of apartments; when someone can live out of a dumpster better than many Third World families can on the best their country has, -that- is wealth! (Of course, it’s also flagrant waste, but that’s for another question…)

My mother always told me to ” cry poor ” at every request for undeserved aid. Perhaps these people’s ” cry poor ” switch is turned on when you call them rich.

Because the bible preaches about pride and how money is the root of all evil and they do not think that money equals riches. Christians think that when they get to heaven that money wont matter. Boy do I have news for them. The bible says that the gates to heavan are two large pearls and the roads are paved with gold … sounds like a rich mans paradise to me