Social Inequalities

806. Is the inequality of social conditions a law of nature?
“No, it is the work of humankind, not of God.”
– Will this inequality disappear someday?
“Only God’s laws are eternal. Don’t you see inequalities disappearing little by little every day? They are destined to disappear together with the predominance of pride and selfishness, leaving only the different levels of merit. A day will come when the members of the great family of God’s children will no longer regard themselves as being of purer or less pure blood, because only the spirit is purer or less pure, and such does not depend on social position.”
807. What about those who abuse the superiority of their social position by oppressing the weak for their own gain?
“They are to be lamented, those wretched beings! They will be oppressed in their turn, and they will be reborn into an existence in which they will suffer everything they caused others to suffer.” (See no. 684)

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