Yeah I think I have a pretty good fix on where Buz is coming from. Even though he looks a lot like a Poe I think he is speaking from his heart and is saying what he believes to be true.
I agree with Percy on this point. Buz believes what he believes without regard for the evidence. When Buz asked "Why so many" I'm sure that he did not have any particular number in mind.
I agree it seems rather un-Christian, certainly not very charitable.
Many fundamentalists have no problem relegating charity to an extremely tiny compartment of their being. It's as if Mathew 25:35-46 had never been written.
Matthew 25:40:
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And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison
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