I do not mean for a moment that we ought not to think, and think hard, about improvements in our socio-economic system. What I do mean is that all that thinking will be mere moonshine unless we realise that nothing but the courage and unselfishness of individuals is ever going to make any system work properly. - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
The aim is "to bring about the kind of society where it is easier to be good.'' - The Catholic Worker.
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I really believe that, with the slight possibility of Christ's Cosmic Resurrection, both Lewis and Dorothy Day would agree that the central requisite of a Christian life, indeed of ALL successful societal aspects of this Vale of Tears, ..this transitory life, is The Golden Rule. Just The Golden Rule..nothing more..the rest is useless topping.
Well yes, but it depends who you think "the other" is.
If we think that the other is the jobless, landless peasant somewhere on the other side of the planet, then IMO you and I are monsters on a par with people who ignored to holocaust sixty years ago.
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