Monday, December 26, 2011

SOME OF RICH MOUW's 'WARMEST MEMORIES' of CHILDHOOD [with commentary by me]

[It's a little self-indulgent...rich mouw strikes me as a person who is concerned about personal longevity of life more so than the kingdom come & acts of righteousness for the sake of the kingdom...mouw strikes me as the kind of person who would never participate in even the mildest form of civil disobedience for the sake of the kingdom ...here he's trying to minimize the importance of true justice in terms of equal distribution of wealth & opportunity & instead defends some of the superficial "feel good" things that we all do to make ourselves feel good for helping rather than making others feel good in a long-term, meaningful manner due to a change of an injust economic policy. I feel proud of myself when I drop a dollar in the offering plate, but I would make a much greater difference if I did something that affected injust policy that makes poverty remain entrenched. Mouw actually loses his own argument here. ]
SOME OF RICH MOUW's 'WARMEST MEMORIES' of CHILDHOOD "Some of my warmest memories from childhood are of an adult lovingly applying a band-aid to a cut or a scrape. The line between affection and mere condescension can be a thin one, but most of us have experienced a real difference between the two.  And my clear sense is that the BP chairman and Abraham Kuyper were on different sides of the thin line..."
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