Love your neighbor as yourself

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Love your neighbor as yourself.

This always seemed like hard moral advice that very few of us were really able to follow. But in recent times its meaning seems clearer. Loving mainly ourselves--which is the definition of the high consumer society we inhabit--means creating a world that stinks. It's a world that is getting steadily hotter, where almost all of us feel increasingly economically insecure.  Jesus had it figured out: It only works when we're in it together.