> “There is a lot in “Love thy neighbor as thyself” which we sometimes give short shrift to today, because it’s so sweeping and we want a simple enumeration... because we don’t want the Spirit to teach it, but our intellect.
Along with “Love thy neighbor as thyself”, I think it was ultimately the effects of “Do unto others as you would have them do to you” that helped bring about an end to slavery in Christian countries and wherever that principle is accepted.
That knocked the technicalities out of it altogether, or should have.
We are at an interesting juncture with our modern “liberal”/conservative divide. I use the scare quotes because the referred people are not liberal at all, but illiberal. They say they want giving but they never do it themselves — they just want the other guy to be hammered to do it.
Donald Trump is trying to recapture the spirit of the old liberal. The one who put his own skin in the game and inspired others to do so, too.