entment that blinds them to the need of repentance for their real sins. Both poor and rich need to be made whole, but nobody can be made whole with a humanitarian understanding of his life. Poor and rich need to be reconciled, but altruism accentuates the self-righteous hypocrisies of both. Even the ontological division of humanity into rich and poor is a ressentiment stratagem that exploits differences so that it can use strife for its own purposes.