Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Ray Saintonge wrote: > >> I guess that some of us are nothing more than unrepentant altruists. We >> believe that free works belong to everybody. If something is of great >> value to you don't need for anyone to tell you that; you already know >> it. How does knowing that you produced something make the idea any >> better or worse than it would be without that knowledge. How is knowing >> that you did it better for everyone? Pride, after all, is one of the >> seven deadly sins. >> > And yet, the church has no problem attributing good > works to saints by name. > The difference here is that the church is making these gratuitous attributions. The saints themselves are too dead to be bothered.
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