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Virtue or Kindness?

What's more important, virtue or kindness? Who's better, a pure virtuous person or kind compassionate person?

 

If one person is very good & pure but occasionally has a mean streak, and another has lots of sex but is really nice, who's the better christian?

 

I was watching Doubt (Meryl Streep) and the priest said it's possible to kill kindness in the name of virtue. That's the origin of this question. Feel free to define what virtuous, pure or kind mean to you.

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The terrible dilliemna of the little, white church by the marsh

It's lovely little Gothic style church ca. 1870 with a country road before it, and marshes that reach out to Northumberland Strait behind. But the devil may lurk in the loveliest places.

Our minister has rhe required hair on his head and, at least in token fom, on his face to be worthy to serve at the altar. Leviticus 21:3.

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