FAULTY MINDSET of a LOT OF CLERKS,CASHIERS, COPS,MECHANICS, TICKET-TAKERS, etc. May COME FROM ARMINIANISM
There's a FAULTY MINDSET in a lot of people (clerks,cashiers, cops, mechanics, etc) that takes false pride in the fact that "at least they're working..." & they even look down their nose at people who went to college & don't "appear" to be "working hard" like themselves (if they must say so themselves). But the FACT is these people are NOT NECESSARILY working any harder, or doing anything more than the college kid with the book, or even the people enjoying themselves at the beach.
In SOME CASES, in fact, they may be DOING LESS than the book reader, or even the person enjoying an evening at the ballpark. Recreation itself is worthwhile & constructive & is also a form of "work"...ironically, the person "recreating" is working for "nothing" while some of the cops,clerks, security, ticket takers, etc are doing NOTHING MORE (or even less) than the person recreating but are getting PAID for it...
Yet even despite this, some of these clerks, cops, cashiers, ticket takers, mechanics, etc insist on being derogatory towards those who are paying their bills..the person who comes in & buys something, who orders coffee, who goes to a game. Were "paying customers", working hard to keep the peace, & yet some of these parasites not only take from us, they also often INSULT us in the process.
Theologically, the SIN of trying to be "justified by works' is called Arminianism (Not Armenianism) & I suspect even for those who say they are "not religious", part of their "works" lifestyle is infected by Arminianism & the false notion that they can be justified by works. GOD is just as happy, if not happier, with a person creating a PERFECT HAPPY day at the beach, for the GLORY of GOD, than He is with the grumpy clerk,cashier,cop,ticket taker, security guard, etc who prides himself on "working" ,albeit with an attitude of contempt & self-glory.
