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Being Your Brother's Keeper Is Good For Society.
Whether you believe in Jesus Christ or not, still, I think it is reasonable to say He, was of exceptional BENEFIT to Society: Love, is all you need.....it is Love the world needs. There is nothing Love cannot do, for the Human Race. Do you not agree?
 Scorpion  07 Aug 2008 21:06
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At his Christmas midnight Mass, The Pope said "when you give at Christmas, do not only give to those who will give back to you in return, but give to those with cold hearts who receive from no one, and, who cannot give you anything back." I guess this would be true brotherly love. You reap what you sow!
 
 joe9  11 Aug 2008 19:25
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Well the word keeper implies controlling to me but I think helping and caring and contribution is the core of a good community.
 
 finsch  09 Aug 2008 18:26
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The core message of Jesus is love and compassion, basically it's a variation of the Golden Rule - do unto others as you'd have done unto you. That concept is the very basis of contemporary society. Yes, it's good for society.

Now if you take the statement verbatim ("Brother's keeper") and you "keep" him by locking him in a cage as your prisoner, then it's not really good for society, unless your brother is quite dangerous. :)
 
 Grenache  08 Aug 2008 14:39
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 :-)

Grenache:

Thank you for your comment. What I was actually trying to say, I guess I said badly, was this:

to be our brother's keeper, a phrase from the bible old testament, Cain said to God when he was being held accountable for the things he did to his brother Abel.

Ok, so what I was saying in my debate was, this conceptual idea:

by reason of being in the human race, we owe another human being our love and compassion to them if it causes them to develop as a human and if our input into another's life benefits their development: if we have the love Agape love, the help we could give them: benefit society in this was by changing the heart of one person we are our brother's keeper........
by  Scorpion
 08 Aug 2008 21:12
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Heh, I almost have to agree. However, love cannot feed you, it cannot give you drink...basically you'll die if you don't have food or water and even shelter. So love isn't ALL the human race needs, unless you're implying that it's better for every single human on earth to die of thirst or something. Heck, as long as we have LOVE we'll be fine when we die, eh?

Yeah, I get what you mean, but hey, it's fun to take things too literally ;)
 
 Starburst  12 Dec 2008 16:27
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It can't cause a cure for cancer. Unless somebody has a loved one who dies from cancer, and in the name of love finds a cure so no one has to feel that pain again. Would that be considered the power of love or the power of the human mind?
 
 verum  07 Aug 2008 21:25
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 love would be the driving force behind the seeking a cure for the cancer so.........it's still that POWERFUL ;-)................
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 07 Aug 2008 21:48
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