“Let the dead bury the dead? But, the dead can bury no one.”
Alan Charles Kors (1943) American academic
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011)
“Jesus once said that the dead should left to bury the dead (Luke 9:60). This shows no disrespect for the dead. It shows an awareness that there are some functions in society that will be well taken care of without Christians investing their creativity in those functions. Someone else, in meeting such needs, can make a stable living. Burying the dead is still one of the businesses in which you can make a stable living. There are other such services that we can count on society handling by itself. Leadership in government and business are among these. Let us reserve our limited creativity for functions that will not be taken care of if we do not to it.”
Source: Radical Christian Discipleship (2012), p. 41
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