Before moving on, we should note a sad connection to our own society: At the close of the twentieth century, it’s that final class which is growing so quickly, the expendable people who are unemployed and unemployable. There’s no way we need you, we say, in effect. We will undereducate you, undertrain you and undervalue you. We even hope you kill one another. We hope the drugs and guns will allow you to kill one another because we can’t fit you into our definition of success, our definition of reality. Yet it was the bottom of society that Jesus most consistently showed concern for. They seem
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