We must call by name tax laws that favor the interests of the rich: evil.
We must call by name corporate boards and executives who under pay their workers while giving corporate executives annual salaries and bonuses so large that it would take the average worker centuries of labor to earn as much: evil.
We must call by name those who claim to hold the people’s needs as holy, but in reality do not: evil.
We must call evil by name to remind the people that public officials are supposed to be public servants, and remind public servants that it is the welfare of the many that they are to serve, not the whims and wants of the privileged few.
We must call the demon by name in our churches, call by name ministers’ crass materialism and their lack of prophetic engagement; must call by name their collusion with forces that exploit and oppress those whom they are supposed to serve.
We must call by name the perversion of Jesus’ Gospel by prosperity preachers who blame the people for their sickness and poverty, instead of decrying the demonic mistreatment of the poor by those who hold only their own needs as holy.
We must call evil by name when pensions are squandered, when Americans are dispossessed of tgheir livelihoods by greedy executives who export American jobs to regions where they can better exploit workers’ desperation.
We must call all the callous and uncaring practices and policies, the betrayals of trust, and the exploitation of weakness and despair what they really are: EVIL.
Not just politics, not just benign neglect, not just thoughtlessness, not even gross selfishness, but evil. If anyone hurts others, limits their life chances or denies them the fullest fruits of life for the sole purpose of enriching himself and those he counts as his own, by biblical definition this is evil.
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February 16th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Nice spam…You will be useful in my dimension. You’re next!
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February 16th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
some good points, but a little too much manifesto-like
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February 16th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
what is your point exactly?
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