Re: A Challenge to RSFC. PUT UP OR SHUT UP!!!!

Samuel Fang wrote: 
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:10:37 -0400, Jeff Davis <jd_home@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


swq22@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:59:40 GMT, Bill Lang
<wjlmutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



BTW, charity motivated by the selfish desire to feel good about yourself is still charity even if Cor 13 says I'm wrong. 


The eight degrees of charity according to Maimonides:

1. A person gives but is not happy when s/he digs into the pocket in
order to give.

2. A person gives cheerfully, but gives less than s/he should.

3. A person gives, but only when asked by a poor person.

4. A person gives without having to be asked, but gives directly to
the poor. The poor person knows he gave the help, and the giver knows
who was benefited

5. A person gives a donation in a certain place, but walks away so
that the giver does not know who received the benefit. The poor person
knows the giver however.

6. A person makes a donation to a poor person secretly. The giver
knows who was benefited, but the poor person does not know who the
giver was.

7. A person contributes anonymously to the charity fund which is then
distributed to the poor.

8. The highest level of charity is to give money and help to prevent
another person from becoming poor. For example, teaching a person a
trade, finding them a job, lending money, teaching them to fish.

Maimonides particularly praised lending money since the lender and the borrower were then involved in an ongoing relationship. 


So loan sharks are great people!  Especially the ongoing relationship
they foster between their lead pipe and your kneecaps!!


I thought you were a rightwinger. What's a loan shark to a right winger?
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