Men of talents and virtue can love others and yet acknowledge the evil that is in them.
--From the Confucian Book of Rites I, 1.1.3.
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New digs for ponderings about Levantine Christianity.
The interior of Saint Paul Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Harissa, Lebanon. I have decided to set up a Substack exploring Eastern Christi...
Why are the nurses so reluctant to come to the most inescapable of conclusions? Their training tells them, quite rightly, that it is their duty to care for everyone without regard for personal merit or deserts; but for them, there is no difference between suspending judgment for certain restricted purposes and making no judgment at all in any circumstances whatsoever. It is as if they were more afraid of passing an adverse verdict on someone than of getting a punch in the face—a likely enough consequence, incidentally, of their failure of discernment. Since it is scarcely possible to recognize a wife beater without inwardly condemning him, it is safer not to recognize him as one in the first place. -Theodore Dalrymple Tough Love
ReplyDeleteSee also: CS Lewis The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
I recently had a discussion with someone who thought the Christian "love the sinner, hate the sin" was a repulsive concept.
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that it's not exclusively Christian.
It isn't. You can find signs of it in other cultures too.
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