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News: The Economy of the Kingdom
Posted on Tuesday, September 30 @ 06:48:48 PDT by Virgil |
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by Jay Voorhees
Bear Sterns. Lehman Brothers. Fannie May and Freddie Mac. AIG. Washington Mutual. Just a few months ago these were names that we may have been familiar with, but were hardly on the tips of our tongues. These days, however, their names are recited daily as symbols of an economic crisis spiraling out of control around us. Our leaders in Washington are scurrying around, trying to find some way to repair the damage, to keep things solvent, arguing over which approach is the best. On Friday, the men who are vying to be the rulers of our kingdom tried to explain why their plan is the better one for restoring economic vitality. Yet, far removed from the stratosphere of Washington and Wall Street investment bankers, thousands of Americans looked at the growing pile of bills, the increasing debt, and the letters from the mortgage company threatening foreclosure, and wondered what they were going to do.
In the midst of all of this turmoil, in the midst of economic uncertainty, in the midst of wondering how we will pay the bills, Jesus confronts us with a different economic vision, one that doesn’t seem to worry about default credit swaps and sub-prime mortgages. It is a teaching that we frankly wish to push aside as naďve and out of touch with the realities of our world. After all, Jesus didn’t face the pressures we face in a global economy, did he? We live in world of high finance, of acquisitions and mergers, and how could Jesus have had a clue about what we face today. “OK Jesus,” we tell the teacher, “you just go over there and focus on spiritual stuff, and we’ll take care of the business here.”
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Re: The Economy of the Kingdom (Score: 1)
 by tom-g on Tuesday, September 30 @ 08:34:57 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | This guy sounds like one of those anti free market kooks I was talking about in the previous article.
He doesn't seem to realize that it is our dedication to immediate gratification and blatant consumerism that is the free market method of solving poverty and famine in the rest of the world. Look at how successful we have been with Japan and China and now with India. He doesn't understand that if goods do not cross national borders, guns will.
He sounds like one of those war monger kooks and the only way to shut him up is by continuing with our dedication and adherence to the sound free market economic consumerist philosophy of me first above God, family, and country. It is only in this way that we will truly bring the promise of the prosperous Kingdom of God into reality for the whole world.
Let's not lose sight of our overarching motto: "Free Trade Uber Allis."
Tom
(My apologies for plagiarizing whichever German leader originated that statement) |
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- by Virgil on Tuesday, September 30 @ 10:48:00 PDT
Re: The Economy of the Kingdom (Score: 1)
by Islamaphobe on Thursday, October 02 @ 07:29:57 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | While Jay Voorhees is correct in attributing much of our current economic turmoil to the overemphasis on materialism and high living, I don't think we need a world in which we encourage everyone to live in the style of the rabbi to whom he refers. Tom G. is correct to state that economic progress in the world hinges on the desire to accumulate material things and that the pursuit of such things has the potential to make society much better off. Thus, if everyone sought to live in the style of the rabbi, I suspect that progress in extending the lifespan of the average human being would cease. The key is to find the right balance between materialism and spirituality. IMO the balance has swung way too far in the direction of living it up, but that does not mean that we should start living in huts.
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Re: The Economy of the Kingdom (Score: 1)
 by davo on Sunday, October 12 @ 10:26:24 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Nothing quite like a global meltdown to keep the climate sceptics here at planet preterist quiet – where is everybody these days? ;)
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- by Ed on Sunday, October 12 @ 15:36:05 PDT
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