"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy."
We're all in this together folks.
Don't you think we were put her to help each other if and when we can? Why is it immoral to help and be helped? All that authoritarian malarkey about making people dependent on you is an excuse to be selfish and competitive. You want to keep following Ronald Reagan and be rugged individualists or Ayn Rand and be greedy fascists and paranoid anarchists- go right ahead, I obviously can't convince you not to.
Me, I'm happier with Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt. I'd rather be positive, constructive, and interconnected than angry, suspicious and defensive. If you think I'm some kind of "Socialist" for believing that government is her to protect us from corporations instead of corporations being here to protect us from government- then I guess that's the way it's gonna be, but we're still all in this together even if you don't want us to be.
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It is a great quote. Now consider how Jesus tells us in Matthew 16 that he sends us out as sheep among wolves who must be as wise as serpents yet as innocent as doves. In Niebuhr's taxonomy of Christ and Culture, Lutherans do not live against or opposed to supply and demand; neither is our goal to transform nor rule over and above supply and demand, and we also must not succumb to the world and supply and demand -- instead, we engage it in paradox -- we use it while we fight it and we fight it while we use it. Rather complex thinking for sheep, eh?!!
So let us try to be, as Viktor Frankl put it, "Sheep in wolves clothing."
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