Being able to read and being literate are two only tangentially related things.
Day: March 25, 2025
2025-03(Mar)-25(Tue)—1348EDT
From the cross, Christ made provision for only one person:
His earthly, biological mother.
We are to love our own more than the stranger.
2025-03(Mar)-25(Tue)—0701EDT
Furthermore, there are only two possible responses from the brother-in-Christ:
- Acceptance of his moral duty to die.
- Rejection of the moral duty (and apostasy along with it).
In the former case, there is no conflict; in the latter case, I now have no reason whatsoever to give him the canteen.
2025-03(Mar)-25(Tue)—0636EDT
If I have but one canteen of water and am faced with two men dying of thirst — one my brother according to the flesh and the other merely a brother-in-Christ —, then I am bound by moral duty to give the canteen to the former, not the latter.