Leftism: The Easiest Way to Be Selfish.
p/c BBC. Driving across the desert, I was thinking of my favorite saint (outside the 1st century) St. Francis Xavier. St. Francis was converted by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the 16th century at the University of Paris and he went on to baptize a half million people in East Asia. On his missions, he was pure charity to the Indians but he was sometimes fire and brimstone to the Portuguese settlers who he constantly found whoring, trading, slaving and fighting. After numerous fruitless warnings on the eternal salvation of these men who were impeding his mission, Xavier finally wrote King John of Portugal to tell him (in sober, respectful [...]
