All must share blessings

Jim Slusher's comments in the Jan. 20 opinion section are certainly well said, but I believe lacking in a few very basic facts of life.

It is true that the reasons why people from differing backgrounds and cultures do not easily conform to the lifestyle that the majority believe is better are not matters for journalists to resolve. However, it would serve everyone well if more of us understood some of the basics about life described by Scripture, great thinkers like Thomas Acquinas and yes, the Catechism of the Catholic Church. These and others are great sources of knowledge and wisdom of why God put us here in the first place.

In my many years of studying this mystery, I have come to believe that when God created humans, he created two persons - one a relatively short-lived human being and the other a spiritual person that lives forever and when created are all equal in the eyes of God. It is very evident that some of the humans and groups of them have more and different talents than others.

Accordingly, some humans and groups of them are able and obligated to accumulate more wealth and thus power, than others, but those that have accumulated more wealth and power than others have an obligation to share that wealth, talent and power with others. This sharing must be of their own volition and not forced.

Only God will judge in the next life how well that sharing was done.

Roland G. Ley

Arlington Heights