Posted by:
Twinker
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Date: September 24, 2020 03:16PM
An interesting quote popped out at me in Isabel Wilkerson's excellent book, "Caste - the Origins of our Discontents".
While not speaking to religion directly, this seemed pertinent to the way sheep are exhorted to "have faith", "do your duty", "Sacrifice", "trust in the lord", "consecrate yourselves, your time, talents, and everything with which the Lord has blessed you, or with which he may bless you, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints".
[Speaking of one's rank in the Indian caste system], Edmund Leach says, "The first moral duty is resignation and acceptance. ...The individual gains personal merit by fulfilling the tasks which are proper to the station into which he has been born.....The rewards for virtue will come in the next life."