The Bush League "Christians" and All Their "Christian" defenders.
The oil companies have announced that they intend to make even more profit as the result of Hurricane Katrina. If anything is certain, its that you can trust an oil company mogul when he says he's about to make money at your expense. There's a word for that—other than "capitalism," I mean, and it's time to ask my question again.
The question is: why is it that some of us—the incredibly, fabulously wealthy—continue being permitted; encouraged, by some—to grow even more wealthy, while the rest—that's the poor, the middle class (remember when we had a middle class?) and the wage-earner—make all the necessary sacrifices? If our soldiers can be asked to give their bodies, limbs and lives, why should people like Halliburton not be required to contribute their services, too? If millions are busting their butts to help New Orleans, the Gulf Coast, and other victims of Katrina, if thousands of National Guard and regular military troops can be wading in noxious slime and dogging bullets aimed at their helicopters, why shouldn't the Brobdingnagian Oil Companies also contribute without profiting?
Now, I know I may as well save my breath, my ink, my electronics or whatever the devil it is makes this thing work. The public mind has been subjected to relentless media mind control for so long, it's useless. They're like sheep behind a Judas Goat. But wait a minute - these are the folks who call themselves "Christian." Let's try this:
We are told, aren't we, that the Judge on Judgment Day will say, "I was hit by a hurricane and left homeless, hungry, and thirsty . . . " He might add, "I wanted to get out of town, or to go to the aid of others who were homeless, hungry, and thirsty, but you raised the price of gas to six dollars, and I couldn't." We are told whenever we hear that "lesson" that the condemned will begin to make excuses (maybe that's why the "leaders" televised comments sound so familiar?) We're also told the Judge will say, "As long as you did it to the least of mine, you did it to me."
It's just my hunch, but I suspect he will add, "And what you did was profit immensely by my trouble."
Do I have to ask my question again?
The question is: why is it that some of us—the incredibly, fabulously wealthy—continue being permitted; encouraged, by some—to grow even more wealthy, while the rest—that's the poor, the middle class (remember when we had a middle class?) and the wage-earner—make all the necessary sacrifices? If our soldiers can be asked to give their bodies, limbs and lives, why should people like Halliburton not be required to contribute their services, too? If millions are busting their butts to help New Orleans, the Gulf Coast, and other victims of Katrina, if thousands of National Guard and regular military troops can be wading in noxious slime and dogging bullets aimed at their helicopters, why shouldn't the Brobdingnagian Oil Companies also contribute without profiting?
Now, I know I may as well save my breath, my ink, my electronics or whatever the devil it is makes this thing work. The public mind has been subjected to relentless media mind control for so long, it's useless. They're like sheep behind a Judas Goat. But wait a minute - these are the folks who call themselves "Christian." Let's try this:
We are told, aren't we, that the Judge on Judgment Day will say, "I was hit by a hurricane and left homeless, hungry, and thirsty . . . " He might add, "I wanted to get out of town, or to go to the aid of others who were homeless, hungry, and thirsty, but you raised the price of gas to six dollars, and I couldn't." We are told whenever we hear that "lesson" that the condemned will begin to make excuses (maybe that's why the "leaders" televised comments sound so familiar?) We're also told the Judge will say, "As long as you did it to the least of mine, you did it to me."
It's just my hunch, but I suspect he will add, "And what you did was profit immensely by my trouble."
Do I have to ask my question again?
posted by Judo Knight-Errant at 9:58 AM
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