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Originally Posted by nguirado
That's fine. I meant to contrast the dominant view of the poor in the Christian era in the West to that of the pagan era. I shouldn't have said "invented."
I don't know too much about Trajan so I'll defer to you guys on that.
The dominant philosophies, stoicism, for example, promoted "goodness," but not compassion or feeling. Many of the public charities were to aggrandize the wealthy and weren't of the selfless type. I don't know that there were bands of men and women in pagan Europe dedicated to helping the wretched.
This is a huge topic that takes a lot of time. We can call a truce on this.
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it is very difficult to call a truce on an issue that you refuse to budge on. unless of course, you are willing to admit that caring and charity did not begin with christianity and is not unique to the belief
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Originally Posted by MJK2111
Sorry, but in the USA, we don't "got to censor it." The fact that we allow and encourage contrary ideas is what makes this country great.
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don't bother, he's banned