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Further Upstream - C.S. Lewis and the Mystery of the Cross

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The Unfairness of Western Individualism

As Westerners, we've achieved a level of material prosperity where we literally expect that the playing field should just be completely even. I think there's another sense in which Christ's atonement won't make sense to us as long as we're clinging to sort of a radical individualism. We are all tied into even in an economic sense, the well-being of everybody else.

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