Waiter: Laying eggs in that bloated, putrid camel carcass. Enjoy your meal!
"You blind guides, who strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel."
Immediately before accusing religious leaders of fretting about small issues while overlooking big ones, Jesus lists what's important: justice, mercy, honesty. Their opposites would be injustice, cruelty, and BS. Three camels.
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| A passing truck in Hamburg |
From AWAD, A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
For a long time we have gone along with some well-tested principles of conduct: that it was better to tell the truth than falsehoods; that a half-truth was no truth at all; that duties were older than and as fundamental as rights; that, as Justice Holmes put it, the mode by which the inevitable came to pass was effort; that to perpetuate a harm was always wrong, no matter how many joined in it, but to perpetuate it on a weaker person was particularly detestable ... Our institutions are founded on the assumption that most people will follow these principles most of the time because they want to, and the institutions work pretty well when this assumption is true. -Dean Acheson, statesman and lawyer (1893-1971)
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Your thoughts are welcome! I'll try not to flinch if there are nasty ones, which I understand are fairly common nowadays.