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The Poor Will Be Rich… (Program and Recap)

Program Very good discussion this Sunday, but, as always, there were things I was hoping to get to that we could not.  We were looking at Luke’s Sermon on the Plain.  He makes sharp divisions between good and evil and is very clear that the best result, the ultimate end, is the reversal of fortune for those at the top …

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Blessed Are the Poor. Woe to the Rich. Uh-oh.

There is a Monty Python sketch about a Robin Hood-type character named Dennis Moore.  He steals from the rich and gives to the poor until the rich have become poor and the poor rich.  This is the paradox of reversal: when the first become last and the last first, we end up with the same class hierarchy.  Nothing has really …

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