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| | Concerning the Education of Clergymen |
 | | As matters go nowadays, too many clergymen let themselves be ruled by vague social sentiments, which slide into humanitarianismby definition the negation of a transcendent understanding of the human conditionwithout recognizing the pit into which they have fallen. |
 | | Yet there are clergymen whose notion of justice cannot be distinguished from that of Marx, who wrote that "In order to create equality, we must first treat men unequally"that is, to despoil the able, the energetic, and the possessors of property, in order to benefit the deified masses. |
 | | Aside from these concerns of doctrine, such clergymen often speak as if we were living in the Bleak Age, with suffering industrial masses and every eleventh person dying in the workhousewhen, obviously enough, ours is the affluent society. |
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