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A 3 page paper which examines Gregory Baum’s claim about social sin being committed out of blindness, and Kozol’s treatment of blindness as it relates to impoverished children in New York. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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level of control are well enough off not to worry about paying their mortgage, buying a car, buying an extra home, going on vacation to Europe, and surely not worrying
about where their next meal will come from, there will be social sin in that people remain blind to the desperate conditions of others. In our society, primarily New York
City in this particular essay, many people go hungry, many children all but starve, never having a Christmas or a birthday. They live in apartments where rats chew through the
walls and chew their cribs. Many people wonder how this can be allowed to happen, while they are ignorant to the fact that they are part of that blindness, a
blindness that sees and does nothing because it can be rationalized in one way or another. The following paper examines the perspectives of Gregory Baum, in his essay "Critical Theology,"
and Jonathan Kozols "Amazing Grace" as it involves social sin and blindness. Social Sin and Blindness The student requesting this paper states, in his description of social sin,
Baum indicates that it is "committed out of blindness" and that "people are involved in destructive action without being aware of it." This is, in some ways, a very simple
reality, and in other ways a very powerful reality. For example, we could ourselves commit such a sin, even those of us who are socially aware, because we were in
our own world and did not notice the people we pass. In a more complex reality, such sin involves covering up, so to speak, the real truth about the harsh
conditions many face, especially children, in our society. Kozol indicates that such covering up is quite common. Kozol indicates that the society, as seen in New York, does
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