The Hill News

The ascendancy of lawyers, bankers and political professions is as sure a sign of any that our society is becoming less free and more tyrannical.

In many ways, these professions have replaced scribes and Pharisees as the money-changers in our temples. Just as the scribes and Pharisees interposed themselves between the average believer and God, so lawyers, bankers and politicians have interposed themselves between the citizen and society.

However, when we as individuals begin to open our hearts to one another and rekindle moral excellence as the primary social currency, the need for oppressive laws and taxation lessens. Not to mention the deadening impact lawyers and so many laws have on the cultivation of virtues in the first place.

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