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To: Aquinasfan
I recommend the parable of the Good Samaritan.

The point of the parable is that the status of "brother" must be earned, and must be extended to anyone who has acted to earn it (by serving your needs).

We are our brother's keeper.

It takes a village.

73 posted on 06/23/2004 8:41:51 AM PDT by steve-b (Panties & Leashes Would Look Good On Spammers)
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To: steve-b
We are our brother's keeper.

It takes a village.

I'm glad you juxtaposed those two visions, because they are both equally misunderstood.

"It takes a village" is perfectly true, in the homogenous, non-pluralistic culture which produced it and at the scale of a village. To say "village" and mean "laws which effectively remove your children from your care by force" was just a characteristically dishonest liberal euphemism on Hillary's part.

Also, I am my brother's keeper. That means if I happen on your ox in the ditch I have a moral responsibility to get it out and return it to you. If I happen on you by the side of the road beaten and bleeding, I have a moral responsibility not to pass by.

These are all voluntary moral acts of love, and that is the New Testament ethic.

What the socialists in the church and out have done to them is simply the soiling that socialists do to everything they touch.

77 posted on 06/23/2004 8:52:01 AM PDT by Taliesan (fiction police)
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