Peter KreeftIn an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.
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In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens.†In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.†We have a saying in America, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” The idea is that anyone who gives money to charity is a sucker. You may say, ‘I’m not a sucker. I give money to charity because I care about others.” But you are still a sucker because you are not giving money for your own sake, not caring how it would help you or others in some way, but because you feel good about yourself for going through the motions of giving without really knowing what’s going on behind the scenes.
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