Originally Posted by paul manata

he should keep behaving in the above manner. He will be distingushed from the hard working pagan in time. The hard working pagan is a moralist, when tragedy or crisis hit, he does not have the resources to deal with the issues. Johnny may be poor, but he has a Bible, he can read that, and he can point people to what it says about the nature of man, why man does what he does, and how man is to acheive salvation.

When people at his job struggle, they will go to Johnny, not the hard working pagan. The hard working pagan has no answers. No satisfactory reason to do what he does. When the cashier's father dies, all the pagan can tell her is, "Awww, that sucks, I'm sorry."