Saturday, April 26, 2014
converts should be neither seen nor heard
After seeing a particularly embarrassing performance from a web-logger who has barely toweled off from his baptism, I want to take a moment to remind the internets that converts should be neither seen nor heard, at least until their initial enthusiasm has worn off. Also, please resist the urge to baptize your political leanings, at least until, again, until you're dry. I mean, I have strong leanings in support of the poor, the desperate, the destitute, the aliens, and the widows, but I'm not about to pretend that my religion is dictating this concern. So I ask the same courtesy when you want to be a useful idiot for the capitalist class. At least until you've been Orthodox for a few years.
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This was a comment on this: http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/02/christs-preferential-option-for-wall-street-tycoons/
I agree with the newly illumined's conclusion but am not sure why he needs to equate tax collectors and millionaires to make it.
Right, the conclusion is okay, but the path to get there is a little cringeworthy. Namely, the need to disparage the idea of "the preferential option for the poor" and to defend the millionaire class.
Of course he needs to disparage the preferential option for the poor. The phrase is of Catholic provenance and therefore has cooties. :p
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