Bible Blogging: All God's Children
Compare this:
Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men. And they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men. They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?" When Moses heard it, he fell on his face,
with this:
You arrogant jerks! How dare you go around accusing everyone of being sinners? Don't you know that most people are basically good and we're all God's children, every one us? Why do you try to make yourself better than everyone else?
That second one isn't (quite) a direct quote, but it is something that I heard a lot while in college. I'm not saying that this is likely to happen on a college campus anytime soon, but I did find the similarities in rhetoric to be interesting.
This entry was tagged. Ethics Philosophy