“Woe unto you that are rich ... woe unto you that are full.”  If “hunger” means “hunger after righteousness,” the antithesis “full” must also mean “full of righteousness,” a state on which Christ would surely not pronounce a woe.  Mr. Bradlaugh well draws out the various thoughts in these most unfortunate sayings:  “Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it the prime place in his teaching?  Is poverty of spirit a virtue at all?  Surely not.  Manliness of spirit, honesty of spirit, fulness of rightful purpose, these are virtues; but poverty of spirit is a crime.  When men are poor in spirit, then do the proud and haughty in spirit oppress and trample upon them, but when men are true in spirit and determined (as true men should be) to resist and prevent evil, wrong, and injustice whenever they can, then is there greater opportunity for happiness here, and no lesser fitness for the enjoyment of future happiness, in some may be heaven, hereafter.  Are you poor in spirit, and are you smitten; in such case what did Jesus teach?  ’Unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other’ (Luke vi. 29).  It were better far to teach that ’he who courts oppression shares the crime.’  Rather say, if smitten once, take careful measures to prevent a future smiting.  I have heard men preach passive resistance, but this teaches actual invitation of injury, a course degrading in the extreme ... the poverty of spirit principle is enforced to the fullest conceivable extent—­’Him that taketh away thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also.  Give to every man that asketh of thee, and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again’ (Luke vi. 29, 30).  Poverty of person is the only possible sequence to this extraordinary manifestation of poverty of spirit.  Poverty of person is attended with many unpleasantnesses; and if Jesus knew that poverty of goods would result from his teaching, we might expect some notice of this.  And so there is—­as if he wished to keep the poor content through their lives with poverty, he says, ‘Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God’ (Luke vi. 20) ...  Poor in spirit and poor in pocket.  With no courage to work for food, or money to purchase it, we might well expect to find the man who held these doctrines with empty stomach also; and what does Jesus teach?  ‘Blessed are ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled’ ...  Craven in spirit, with an empty purse and hungry mouth—­what next?  The man who has not manliness enough to prevent wrong, will probably bemoan his hard fate, and cry bitterly that so sore are the misfortunes he endures.  And what does Jesus teach?  ’Blessed are ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh’ (Luke vi. 21) ...  Jesus teaches that the poor, the hungry, and the wretched shall be blessed.  This is not so.  The blessing only comes when they have ceased to be poor, hungry, and wretched.  Contentment under poverty, hunger, and misery is high treason, not to yourself alone but to your fellows.  These three, like foul diseases, spread quickly wherever humanity is stagnant and content with wrong” ("What Did Jesus Teach?” pp. 1-3).