11 March

Loving Our Country: The Seven Social Sins

by Jon Katz
Seven Social Sins

I don’t express my politics in arguments on Twitter or Facebook. I express them through my life, for better or worse..

In 1925, Frederick Lewis Donaldson gave a sermon in Westminster Abbey London, it was called “The Seven Social Sins,’ they were reprinted and often quoted by Gandhi.

For me, it is a political manifesto, though I would be shocked to hear it adopted by a politician. It expresses the values of the country I love, the one I wish to live in.

This list of social sins reminds me that my country is broken, and can be healed.

 

Wealth Without Work

Pleasure without conscience

Knowledge Without Character

Commerce without morality

Science without humanity

Worship without sacrifice

Politics without principle.

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