Original Sin, Social Justice, and Mercy
12/03/11 19:54 Filed in: sunday reflections
You can read a story like this, about how Governor Walker has allowed lobbyist into the capital but not allowed everyday citizens and how he has given hundreds of millions in tax cuts while cutting billions from programs that serve the citizens and fall into the traditional lines of classical liberalism in America: democrat or republican. But if you read that story alongside the Church readings for the first Sunday of Lent, you might want to resist that move.
Stealing from the poor -- whether by the government or by corporations -- is taking the devil up on his third temptation to Christ.
Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain,
and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence,
and he said to him, "All these I shall give to you,
if you will prostrate yourself and worship me.”
It is to eat from the tree in the Garden of Eden, when human beings broke from God and broke from each other. Remember. Eve and Adam turned against each other as soon as they ate from the tree: blaming each for their sin.
If we are to return to the Garden of Eden and return to God, we must join together. We must absolutely and resolutely resist the forces that divide us into us and them -- into public employees and private employees, into union members and non-union members, into immigrants and citizens, into Hispanics and caucasians.
Religion is “tying back together.” Our first task as Catholics is to tie ourselves back together as human beings and as a community.
Stealing from the poor -- whether by the government or by corporations -- is taking the devil up on his third temptation to Christ.
Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain,
and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence,
and he said to him, "All these I shall give to you,
if you will prostrate yourself and worship me.”
It is to eat from the tree in the Garden of Eden, when human beings broke from God and broke from each other. Remember. Eve and Adam turned against each other as soon as they ate from the tree: blaming each for their sin.
If we are to return to the Garden of Eden and return to God, we must join together. We must absolutely and resolutely resist the forces that divide us into us and them -- into public employees and private employees, into union members and non-union members, into immigrants and citizens, into Hispanics and caucasians.
Religion is “tying back together.” Our first task as Catholics is to tie ourselves back together as human beings and as a community.
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