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Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 08:18:42 +1100 From: homan <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Susanne Berg <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Society's commitment to disabled people?? References: <01be4ef5$ff9bb0a0$dd0664c3@zrkciqap> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry to butt in, but on the subject of charity: it promotes, and sustains un-equal relationships. It is a structure that leads to the giver feeling benign and good and virtuous, wheras it sows the seeds of hate for the giver in those that are deemed so unequal that charity will benefit, but not too much, because if they did become equal (or better, perish the thought) what would happen to the mechanisms to make the giver feel benign, and good and virtuous and superior? It was not hard to hate the Americans for their largesse after the war, and our coloured friends in Africa and Asia had good reason to eat missionaries. Have a good day, John Susanne Berg wrote: > > Paul, > I have not read any theory of religion and disability, but quite a few > religious (Xtian texts). I've done this to try to analyse why I feel the > pressure to be grateful and why people inside the social service system act > the way they tend to do. You could say i did it for survival. > > Charity is a Xtian (and I beleive other religions also have this) concept. > The foundation for this in every text I've read is not respect but love; > that is the religious concept of love which means "giving til it hurts" like > Mother T said. > > This would imply that the reason for charity never is respect for the > receivers but rather a sort of religious training for the good of your soul. > But then religion is more of an individual matter, don't you agree, > something between you and your "God". At least not a priori something that > was ment to build societies, even if it does do that as well. > > Susanne -- [InternetShortcut] URL=http://proxy.networx.com.au/