"To you who hear I say, hate your enemies. Annihilate those who disagree with you. Curse those who speak ill of you. Condemn those who retaliate against you. If someone defends himself by striking you back, waste him. And take everything from the person who tries to recover what you yourselves have stolen; put them in prison and throw away the key. Ignore those who seek alms from you; they're just lazy freeloaders. And jail the one who takes what your system denies him making sure he pays back every cent with interest. Do others before they can do you. Lend at the highest rate of interest the market will bear even if it causes women and children to starve."
Just look at the world such departures from Jesus' wisdom have produced!
Still, when someone (e.g. like Marianne Williamson) comes forward calling the nation to a radical spiritual change based on the elementary teaching found not only in Christianity but in all religions viz. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" she's dismissed as "impractical," "unrealistic," and "new age"
No, that teaching is "old age." It comes from Jesus! It represents his political program.
Isn't it time for politicians to reverse course and follow the teachings of the spiritual Master they claim as the Savior of the world? For starters, truly following Jesus' political program that we've reviewed these past few weeks would have us:
- Assume leadership in the fight against climate change
- Cut our defense budget by at least two-thirds
- Withdraw from all foreign wars
- Repair the damage done by those conflicts
- Close our country's military bases across the world
- Forgive the debt of the former colonies
- Completely reform our prison system from one dominated by punishment to one centered on rehabilitation
- Make reparation to the descendants of former slaves
- Renounce interference in foreign elections (as we would have others do in relation to our own voting system)
- And so much more
You get the idea. I get the idea. Or maybe we can't . . .
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