The second chapter of Menninger\u2019s book layers further echoes Progressive complaints.\u00a0 An editor asks: \u201cWhat ails the American Spirit?\u201d\u00a0 Answers come from professors of government, history and humanities.\u00a0 Menninger calls them \u201cprophets\u201d.<\/p>\n
Menninger recounted the French Protestant\u2019s Declaration (1972) of the unacceptability of the present economic and political system.\u00a0 \u201cThe Strong dominate and manipulate the Weak in socioeconomic activities radically incompatible with the gospel\u201d.<\/p>\n
Then, Menninger asked: Who is to blame?\u00a0 He suggested a re-reading of the parable in Matthew where the Master\u2019s fields were sown with weeds after the grain was coming up.\u00a0 In Menninger\u2019s re-telling, the Master himself, unconscious, in his sleep, went out and sowed weeds into his own fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The second chapter of Menninger\u2019s book layers further echoes Progressive complaints.\u00a0 An editor asks: \u201cWhat ails the American Spirit?\u201d\u00a0 Answers come from professors of government, history and humanities.\u00a0 Menninger calls them \u201cprophets\u201d. Menninger recounted the French Protestant\u2019s Declaration (1972) of the unacceptability of the present economic and political system.\u00a0 \u201cThe Strong dominate and manipulate the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n