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To: flashbunny
jealousy

Document any jealousy that I expressed.

219 posted on 09/01/2005 7:12:39 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Document any jealousy that I expressed.

I would say (again) that it is not so much "jealousy" as "envy," which is a far more serious moral condition. "Jealousy" is simply wanting what you have. "Envy" realizes that I cannot have what you have, but hates you for having it, and wants to destroy your wealth or your ability to produce wealth. It is usually justified by the argument that those who "have it" did not "get it" in the correct manner, or that the very fact that some do not "have it"eradicates the right of others to do so, and they must be punished. This is the root of leftism and is a moral canker at the soul of those who argue against "the god Economius." Again, the "god" arguing against this is not the God of historical Christianity, but another, who brings the smell of brimstone with the argument. The millions who have died in the name of that "economic justice" in the past century should show the argument for what it is, but there are many who still buy into it. Some do so while citing the bible, it seems.

242 posted on 09/01/2005 7:28:10 AM PDT by chronic_loser
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