tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19812413.post5595503693309812215..comments2023-04-28T07:20:52.481-06:00Comments on The Western Chauvinist: How about a little Chesterton?S11 Republicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09394384190338300732noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19812413.post-71069303002311244952010-05-12T18:15:32.983-06:002010-05-12T18:15:32.983-06:00I think I agree with you, Tom. However, I would o...I think I agree with you, Tom. However, I would only add that, in their way, the poor need Christ as much as the rich. In this we are all equal.The Western Chauvinisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05110055445490648780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19812413.post-6797147046325372142010-05-12T16:12:44.797-06:002010-05-12T16:12:44.797-06:00Is there any answer to the proposition that those ...Is there any answer to the proposition that those who have had the best<br />opportunities will probably be our best guides? Is there any answer to the<br />argument that those who have breathed clean air had better decide for those<br />who have breathed foul? As far as I know, there is only one answer, and<br />that answer is Christianity. Only the Christian Church can offer any rational<br />objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from<br />the beginning that the danger was not in man's environment, but in man.<br />Further, she has maintained that if we come to talk of a dangerous<br />environment, the most dangerous environment of all is the commodious<br />environment. I know that the most modern manufacture has been really<br />occupied in trying to produce an abnormally large needle. I know that the<br />most recent biologists have been chiefly anxious to discover a very small<br />Information prepared by the Project Gutenberg legal advisor 110<br />camel. But if we diminish the camel to his smallest, or open the eye of the<br />needle to its largest--if, in short, we assume the words of Christ to have<br />meant the very least that they could mean, His words must at the very least<br />mean this-- that rich men are not very likely to be morally trustworthy.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12092137280606266606noreply@blogger.com