If a great society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

[dkf]

Words to think about from JFK.

Morning Joe had a clip from The Colbert Report. When is the last time young people have heard these types of ideas? Our mass media keeps us entertained while we sit on our fat asses.

[LynneSin]

1. Matthew 25:45 - whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me

The words from Jesus himself.

Yet I find few bible bangers actually living those words

[dkf]

2. True.

That is why I don't understand Christianity nowadays.

[LynneSin]

4. Simple - for the fundamentalists they follow Paul, not Jesus

Paul was the founding father of Fundamentalist Christianity. Thing is about Paul, he was one of thousands of people who spread the faith after Jesus' resurection. But Paul was not someone who was ever prohpesized in the old testament like Jesus was, he was simple the one person that the Bible committee in the 300AD decided to use as an example of how Christianity was spread after the death of Jesus.

Don't you think it's funny that it's Paul's word, whose basic idea was convert them until it hurts, is the one they picked. God forbid these folks would follow the teachings of Jesus because they would pay their taxes (render unto Caeser), help the poor (Matthew 25:45) and not desire wealth (that whole "It is easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" stuff). Don't even get me started on the Beatitudes where Jesus blessed people like the Meek, and the Peacekeepers because you don't see fundies getting their joys out of doing that.

[Newest Reality]

3. If voting is supposed to be our power to change things

and politicians go with the highest bidder now, then what other than entertainment and living in convenient delusions is left to many of us?

We could bring the country to a standstill via a National Strike, but the corporate media has full control of the collective discussion and so, we can currently only entertain ourselves with the notion of such an idea in the nooks and crannies we find online and amongst our fellows. Too many of us are on a paycheck-to-paycheck basis, so the risk proves great.

We could also begin to opt-out of whatever we can muster the will to, i.e., paying for certain services, buying what is not essential, changing our preferred venues for goods. Who will even make small sacrifices like that or believe that they could make a difference?

We live in a sub-divided house and the even the very shaking and groaning at its foundation has yet to bring the kind of unity amongst its dwellers that would create a clear consensus on what to do about it.