Peter opened his mouth and said, Truly I perceive that God doesn't show favoritism

Peter opened his mouth and said, Truly I perceive that God doesn't show favoritism

A cosmic us and them, and a God who is guilty of the worst kind of favoritism?

There are over eight words for what they call animal favoritism selective proceptivity, mate choice, female choice, sexual choice.

'You shall do no injustice in judgment you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

'You shall do no injustice in judgment you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

His judgments there were no better than those that got the United States involved in that disastrous adventure. Having placed fighting corruption at the top of the Bank s agenda, he left in the middle of his term, accused of favoritism.

Governments generally lack the needed technical capacity to design such projects, opening up possibilities of favoritism and corruption when major contracts are awarded. Such charges are likely to be hurled at governments even when they are not true, though all too often they are.

Although Dawes refused to make use of his political connections when his bank was pushed to the brink, the RFC nonetheless faced accusations of favoritism. Populist members of Congress, predictably outraged, demanded an audit and insisted on publication of a list of all banks that the RFC had aided.

And, because it forms the basis for responsible policies, it would attract support from centrists. And voters on the right like proposals that offer a credible way to end the favoritism if not outright corruption that has come to define the relationship between the top levels of government and Wall Street.

The expenses and pressure of the dowry system, and the fact that, in most joint families, only sons inherit property and wealth, contribute to this favoritism. Perhaps just as important is that sons typically live with their parents even after they are married, and assume responsibility for parents in their old age.

There are stories, unverifiable but plausible, that 20 or more of Hun Sen s closest associates have each amassed more than 1 billion through misappropriation of state assets, illegal economic activity, and favoritism in state procurement and contracting. There has also been political patronage bordering on parody, with one recent count putting the government s size at 244 ministers and secretaries of state.

Many Sunnis, for example, accuse America of favoritism the United States intervenes to protect Kurds, Yazidis, and Christians in northern Iraq, they say, but does little to stop the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Sunnis in Syria. In fact, America s complicated history of church state relations at home has made it reluctant to intervene on the part of any religious groups abroad, especially when the population is small.

With inequality reaching such extremes, it is not surprising that its effects are manifest in every public decision, from the conduct of monetary policy to budgetary allocations. America has become a country not with justice for all, but rather with favoritism for the rich and justice for those who can afford it so evident in the foreclosure crisis, in which the big banks believed that they were too big not only to fail, but also to be held accountable.