We have all heard of the young man who while serving contentedly as a hotel porter, and glad of the job, was suddenly elevated to superaffluence by inheriting a large fortune.
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We have all heard of the young man who while serving contentedly as a hotel porter, and glad of the job, was suddenly elevated to superaffluence by inheriting a large fortune.
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The book of Judges invites us to ask ourselves whether the same greed and self-centeredness that has produced our superaffluence is not also systematically teaching us to be violent.
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