Is it weird that I might actually read this Ross Douthat book about Catholicism? If it really explores the question of morality vs compassion, well that’s relevant to people of all faiths or no faith who are interested in righteousness.
What is more important and more honoring to God? Alleviating one person’s suffering, or baptizing one person into the church? Is this what is meant by “faith without works is dead”? In a true faith, would one baptism (always already) mean ten sick people healed?
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But at the end of the day, which is more primary? Which is more central? Is a faith that centers human suffering and the alleviation thereof too humanistic? But surely a faith that baptizes many and heals none is dead, cannot be the faith of a living God?
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