A Case Like Basket Case
Together with faith, hope and love, charity is one of the Christian virtues. Like "pity", this word has also changed its connotation from good to bad. Originally, "charity" directly translates to agape in Corinthians - agape being the kind of love that most resembles Jesus'. Charity entails too much patience and altruism on the part of the giver. Through time, however, there was a shift in the perspective. Charity is being looked now from the point of view of the recipient, and this started the problem. Man has always been too proud to be the object of both pity and charity that we cannot just imagine ourselves to be another "charity case". Polluted word, man's folly - what a waste of good intent!
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