1.0Blogaloguehttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/blogaloguensymmondshttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/blogalogue/author/nsymmondsDavid Klinghoffer: The Bible Says Poverty and Morality are Connected - Blogaloguerich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="uiHANEgS7g"><a href="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/blogalogue/2008/06/david-klinghoffer-the-bible-sa.html">David Klinghoffer: The Bible Says Poverty and Morality are Connected</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/blogalogue/2008/06/david-klinghoffer-the-bible-sa.html/embed#?secret=uiHANEgS7g" width="600" height="338" title="“David Klinghoffer: The Bible Says Poverty and Morality are Connected” — Blogalogue" data-secret="uiHANEgS7g" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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Biblical wisdom is all-encompassing, with something to say about every private and public concern, yet your approach, Jim, seems myopic. Your passions are aroused by poverty, the Biblical approach to which you misunderstand, and by war, which you fail to appreciate as the normal tool of statecraft that it is in the Biblical perspective. On…