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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

"A perilous proposition […] asserts that Christianity, by its very nature, is concerned exclusively with the relation of the soul to eternity, that the essential realization religion should provide is the worthlessness of human expectations of a better life on earth. It insists that the son of God took our flesh not to relieve our sufferings but to forgive our sins, and so the Church’s function is to focus not on violations of social justice but on the undying hardness of human hearts.
This thesis does violence to Scripture. Those who read in the biblical text a sheerly personal, individualistic morality have not understood the Torah, have not sung the Psalms, have not been burned by the prophets, have not perceived the implications and the very burden of Jesus’ message, and must inevitably play fast and loose with St Paul. "

- Burghardt.

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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

why is there more in the news about the collapsed minnesotan bridge where 9 people died than there is about the floods in south asia, where millions of people are awaiting relief?

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