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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do unto others as you would have done unto you.

The last shall be first and the first shall be last.

Whatsoever you do to the least of my people, that you do unto me.

Our culture is all about competion and consumption...the essence of capitalism.  IMO, the most important messages I got out of Catholic school ...12 yrs...were these messages of humility and service.[/quote]

Many religions have these values -- Christianity is not needed to have them.   Many non-religious people have these values too.[/quote]

Several major religions still have eye-for-eye justice. Jesus explicitly and very clearly said that eye-for-eye justice is a bad thing, instead people should turn the other cheek, forgive, not judge, et cetera.[/quote]

Actually that's not correct for one, and probably two reasons:

First, eye-for-eye justice amounted to a revolution in thought.  This came from Judaism.  It was saying people are equal.  Before, if you were of a lower class, and accidentally injured someone in power, or even insulted them, you could be killed.  This brought everyone down, or up, to the same level.  The individual in power could not kill in revenge for one who had not killed their kin; the power had to be evenly distributed.

Second, there is an alternate explanation for Jesus's "turn the other cheek" comment, given the context of his words at the time.  People at that time slapped slaves with the back of their hand, and slapped their equals with the palm of their hand.   Turning the other cheek has been interpreted by many scholars as Jesus saying, "don't slap me like a slave; slap me like your equal,"--a challenge.  [/quote]

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