Posted by
Gamecock on Friday, July 25, 2008 1:04:49 PM
[This blog entry is a response to a thoughtful question posed at one of my favorite blogs, Sacred Space by Jane Pope of The Charlotte Observer-link below]
Jane
Let me, after much contemplation, provide a more complete answer to your
blog question by posing the following question:
Who is helped more by virtue, i.e. or moral success, if you will?
I would suggest that most wealthy families got that way via eschewing sin, relatively speaking for at least one generation and probably more and that most of those who earn higher incomes do so, at least in part, because they work hard and play by the rules instead of wasting their earnings and time on bohemian pursuits.
But then again, don't we often see a phenomenon amongst the affluent in persons and nations, as they sometimes grow soft. Don't we see this in Europe and the Kennedys in Mass?
Jesus, camel and needle come to mind.
Ironically, it is the churches that draw bright lines that are and have been growing for decades now and the mushy so-called mainline ones that are dying.
God bless
And in closing, all are helped by virtue. Certainly eschewing drugs, crime, sex outside marriage and its attendant results of disease and illegitimacy, and guilt rendering abortions, increase the odds of making a better physical living and are the key to receiving God's gift as a spiritual being.
Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for