I hope that I can bring something new and exciting to this blog. It has been said that a person hears only what they understand. (Goethe) I want you to hear me ... via words of course ... and understand.
A so called wise king once said, ... there is no new thing under the sun! I beg to differ, and it is my goal to provide the evidence of new things, that we can consider or cast aside.
I give my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that occur under the heavens!
Monday, August 30, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
The Worker's Gospel
Today I want to take advantage of something my friend expressed to me in an earlier email this morning, Friday, 27 August 2010:
My friend's comment:
The American “ideals” of liberty, equality and fraternity are all jingoistic BS!
Hasn’t American history been one of constant struggle for these “rights” which were supposedly enshrined by the constitution: voting rights for non property owners, voting rights for women, black men counted as 3/5 of a person???????, civil rights for any and all non-white, non-christian, &tc, &tc, &tc, workers rights, whose gains have been systematically dismantled throughout the last 30 yrs?
As I’ve said before, christianity, as with all organized, hierarchical religions are nothing more than instruments of control. If you’re in church praying that your daily bread will be given, you aren’t in the streets demanding that the product of your labor be given, so that you may provide your own bread.
Friends ... of what you most of all need to take note, is my friend's final sentence:
Ponder in your mind now the context of the "Lord's Prayer" as stated in the bibical gospel of Matthew, chapter 6:9-13, viz., as part of a discourse deploring people who may pray grandiosely, simply for the purpose of being seen to pray. Of course, the writer Matthew describes his Lord and Rabbi Jesus as instructing people to pray "after the manner" of this prayer, taking into account the prayer's structure, flow of subject matter and emphases, and indeed, one interpretation of this prayer is perhaps a guideline on how to pray rather than something to be learned and repeated by rote.
This is the worker's gospel message for the day!
Thanks MCC
My friend's comment:
The American “ideals” of liberty, equality and fraternity are all jingoistic BS!
Hasn’t American history been one of constant struggle for these “rights” which were supposedly enshrined by the constitution: voting rights for non property owners, voting rights for women, black men counted as 3/5 of a person???????, civil rights for any and all non-white, non-christian, &tc, &tc, &tc, workers rights, whose gains have been systematically dismantled throughout the last 30 yrs?
As I’ve said before, christianity, as with all organized, hierarchical religions are nothing more than instruments of control. If you’re in church praying that your daily bread will be given, you aren’t in the streets demanding that the product of your labor be given, so that you may provide your own bread.
Friends ... of what you most of all need to take note, is my friend's final sentence:
Ponder in your mind now the context of the "Lord's Prayer" as stated in the bibical gospel of Matthew, chapter 6:9-13, viz., as part of a discourse deploring people who may pray grandiosely, simply for the purpose of being seen to pray. Of course, the writer Matthew describes his Lord and Rabbi Jesus as instructing people to pray "after the manner" of this prayer, taking into account the prayer's structure, flow of subject matter and emphases, and indeed, one interpretation of this prayer is perhaps a guideline on how to pray rather than something to be learned and repeated by rote.
This is the worker's gospel message for the day!
Thanks MCC
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