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Showing posts with label Forgiveness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forgiveness. Show all posts
Friday, April 10, 2015
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
The Problem with Compassion
Compassion is a fine quality. But an excess of emotion without
appropriate practical follow-up always seems to end very badly indeed.
Now I’m not talking about Leftist social engineering,
professional fundraising or the welfare state when I use the word “compassion”.
Such projects are promoted as compassionate and claim a tender-hearted motive but produce little effect. Professional fundraisers often absorb most of the funds they raise. The welfare system is so administration-heavy and fraud-ridden that handing
stacks of cash to the visibly distressed on the street might well mitigate the
effects of poverty more efficiently.
We may credit Progressives and Redistributionists with good intentions if we are being generous, but those ideologies have never been effective at producing their desired outcome —
the only metric by which we may judge the fruits of compassion.
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Saturday, July 19, 2014
How Not To Be Forgiven
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Forgiveness is the great equalizer. In extending Christian forgiveness, we acknowledge our own ongoing sins and failures and accept back those who have sinned against us in the knowledge that we, too, will fail them tomorrow and will go on failing them until the Lord returns.
Forgiveness makes every person my equal and everyone my brother or sister in the only sense that equality can ever be attained on earth and in the only sense that, from a human perspective, really matters.
But some people will not be forgiven.
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Thursday, July 03, 2014
How Much Does It Have To Hurt?
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