The Church has a stake in war: Why? George Washington’s 1796 Farewell Address (first sentence excerpted here from the paragraph in his Address relating to taxation, debt and unavoidable wars): “As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.” avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp Was the Federal Reserve’s flagrant abuse of the public credit ($17 trillion US National Debt) to fund war justified? Were the Vietnam and Iraq wars unavoidable? What about the Church’s just war doctrine? Does anyone care that in 1886 the US Supreme Court found corporations to be “persons” within the meaning of the 14th Amendment thereby compromising 20th & 21st century flesh and blood citizens’ Bill of Rights protections under the US Constitution? Idolatry sucks! Doing something moral for a change to stop corporate rule in its tracks by putting power back into the real people of America is actually a challenge to the dysfunctional Church to become the church of Jesus Christ’s human followers the world so sorely needs today. The Cost of Discipleship, a book authored by Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was martyred by Hitler’s gang for his work in the Confessing Church in 1930’s Germany, stands as a good example for American Christians to follow in dealing with their current moribund social order. Political action is required for human citizens to abolish the government-created legal person thereby ending corporate rule for real peace in the 21st century. Unstoppables to rescind bad law in Duluth, Minnesota: Check out the new definition (since 1979) listed as “person” in (Subd. 10 of Minnesota Statute 13.02): https://revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=13.02 Minnesota’s cities, including Duluth, soon followed suit by adding this new definition to their City Codes. Are We Trapped? You be the judge. If you agree, then read Ralph Nader’s book Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance To Dismantle The Corporate State, select your pet peeve from the list on page 65-6 (mine are #17- End corporate personhood, and #23-Push for environmentalism) of 25 Proposed Redirections and Reforms Through Convergent Action, then help get candidates elected to political office who are in favor of rescinding bad law instead of creating a political football for non-profits to make money from like Move To Amend has. The Church and the labor market: Workers in the pews are the real people, not the US Supreme Court’s legal corporate idol of Wall Street, whose social labor has produced both the post-Vietnam War ‘guns and butter’ on wages since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the 1965 monetary reforms that did away with the lawful US$ as a fixed weight of silver, enabled the US government to borrow at usury unlimited Federal Reserve$ for its programs, and is perpetuating the phony peace doctrine that enables war to be practiced as a corporate business racket, while solutions to the world’s human problems that are threatening the survival of creation and our civilization go unaddressed. Read Ralph Nader’s book Unstoppable. Get the T shirt.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:32:27 +0000
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