Tapsearch Com EditorEconomic Sins of Omission
May 6th 2012 00:14
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The end must correspond with the means
Our economic lives and our time spent at work should be a continuous spiritual pursuit. Dividing the two is dualism where we are told we have to face the real world in our business and work day. If we believe in God and say we want to follow His teaching on earth, we need to remold social and economic structures based on justice, human dignity and in co-operation of the working classes. The Capital system is not doing this in our times. Workers have no voice in the process and of free trade and globalization. We are regressing into the age of the Robber Barons.
Too many people of good will are ignoring the suffering of workers. They do not question what others have to do to provide them with the things they use and consume. They hide from the fact that many impoverished workers and even child labor make and grow what they consume. We live in a world where only a few can make a living as a farmer. We live in a world where workers can not afford to buy the things they make. This is not only wrong but impractical. As the Bible says, "Do unto others as you would have them do to you." is not only spiritual but practical.
We need to know and live the part we play in God's plan. The Occupation Wall Street movement is here. It is real and it is growing across the world.
It is a vast movement and is still in the process of defining itself. Christians and people of good will should be a part of it because it basically boils down to the fact that workers do not have any voice in their destiny in the work world. When good people ignore the suffering others, ugly things follow.
Our major news channels do not take on the voice of the people . They speak for elite powerful groupings who want to control the flow of wealth. We need journalists who will sort out the facts and print it. Our unemployment rate is fiction. Our labor force is shrinking even though our population is growing. Only about 38 percent of all workers in the U.S. qualify for unemployment insurance. This means there are more then 60 percent of all workers living is some sort of economic limbo. They are missing in action from any kind of real reporting .
A person making only about 100 dollars a month is considered employed. Many are forced to make it in the underground economy. On garbage collection day, many sort through the garbage on the street looking for something they can sell and this has become a common practice.
There is a vast pool of educated Christians who do not have a job. This is why the Occupy Wall Street movement will continue for a long time.
Economic Sins of Omission
Jacque Maritain, one of the last great philosopher in our times, says Christianity becomes dormant when Christians isolate themselves to a conservative stance. They say let each man do his work where he is placed,
without concerning himself about the rest and all will go well. There a
lot of human virtue and dignity in such an attitude. Many conservative journalists portray this in their writings. However, this also leads to routine, stoic thinking and even negligence. The social gospel of our church is a very
demonstrative activist model. We should be acting out the story of the Good Samaritan from the Bible. In the Catholic Church we have Pope Leo's Rerum Novarum encyclical on work and ownership. It stood the test of time for more than a hundred years and led the way for workers to unite and seek a middle class living in production work. Good Conservatives attacked unions. There was plenty of issues that needed to be reformed but just when many minorities were entering the middle class as union members, unfair economic practices took them out. Too many people of good will are ignoring the suffering of those who lost everything due to free trade and globalization.
It is not enough for them to rest upon structures of existing civilizations because they have a good and proper social foundation. The world is now paying for this conservative approach. Too many are now outside looking in as what is supposed to be. The way it was is gone. Liberal Capitalism has capture us. It is raw Capitalism that no longer resembles what it was. What we have has led to egoism and truly sins of omission. The current
Republican crop of politicians confirms this. Pope John Paul said
workers are not tools of Capitalism. The two major presidential candidates don not care. And this is what the Occupy Wall Street movement is all about people who do care. It is about too good people saying " I got mine. Why don't your have yours." The close their eyes and ears to the suffering of others. They live off the working poor class in our country and a vast underclass overseas who are making the things we use. It is more about people of good will who call themselves Conservatives committing sins of omissions. All of us have to open our eyes and ears to what is really happening and not isolate ourselves behind closed doors. We can not say "I got mine. Why don't you have yours." We need to find out why we lost the way we were and the the way it was.
Today, we have Conservatives who foster Liberal Capitalism and Liberals like President Obama who bailed out big money, married them to big government and created a new kind of State Capitalism. No matter who does it , it is still a trickle down economy that will not work.
The end must correspond with the means
Our economic lives and our time spent at work should be a continuous spiritual pursuit. Dividing the two is dualism where we are told we have to face the real world in our business and work day. If we believe in God and say we want to follow His teaching on earth, we need to remold social and economic structures based on justice, human dignity and in co-operation of the working classes. The Capital system is not doing this in our times. Workers have no voice in the process and of free trade and globalization. We are regressing into the age of the Robber Barons.
Too many people of good will are ignoring the suffering of workers. They do not question what others have to do to provide them with the things they use and consume. They hide from the fact that many impoverished workers and even child labor make and grow what they consume. We live in a world where only a few can make a living as a farmer. We live in a world where workers can not afford to buy the things they make. This is not only wrong but impractical. As the Bible says, "Do unto others as you would have them do to you." is not only spiritual but practical.
We need to know and live the part we play in God's plan. The Occupation Wall Street movement is here. It is real and it is growing across the world.
It is a vast movement and is still in the process of defining itself. Christians and people of good will should be a part of it because it basically boils down to the fact that workers do not have any voice in their destiny in the work world. When good people ignore the suffering others, ugly things follow.
Our major news channels do not take on the voice of the people . They speak for elite powerful groupings who want to control the flow of wealth. We need journalists who will sort out the facts and print it. Our unemployment rate is fiction. Our labor force is shrinking even though our population is growing. Only about 38 percent of all workers in the U.S. qualify for unemployment insurance. This means there are more then 60 percent of all workers living is some sort of economic limbo. They are missing in action from any kind of real reporting .
A person making only about 100 dollars a month is considered employed. Many are forced to make it in the underground economy. On garbage collection day, many sort through the garbage on the street looking for something they can sell and this has become a common practice.
There is a vast pool of educated Christians who do not have a job. This is why the Occupy Wall Street movement will continue for a long time.
Economic Sins of Omission
Jacque Maritain, one of the last great philosopher in our times, says Christianity becomes dormant when Christians isolate themselves to a conservative stance. They say let each man do his work where he is placed,
without concerning himself about the rest and all will go well. There a
lot of human virtue and dignity in such an attitude. Many conservative journalists portray this in their writings. However, this also leads to routine, stoic thinking and even negligence. The social gospel of our church is a very
demonstrative activist model. We should be acting out the story of the Good Samaritan from the Bible. In the Catholic Church we have Pope Leo's Rerum Novarum encyclical on work and ownership. It stood the test of time for more than a hundred years and led the way for workers to unite and seek a middle class living in production work. Good Conservatives attacked unions. There was plenty of issues that needed to be reformed but just when many minorities were entering the middle class as union members, unfair economic practices took them out. Too many people of good will are ignoring the suffering of those who lost everything due to free trade and globalization.
It is not enough for them to rest upon structures of existing civilizations because they have a good and proper social foundation. The world is now paying for this conservative approach. Too many are now outside looking in as what is supposed to be. The way it was is gone. Liberal Capitalism has capture us. It is raw Capitalism that no longer resembles what it was. What we have has led to egoism and truly sins of omission. The current
Republican crop of politicians confirms this. Pope John Paul said
workers are not tools of Capitalism. The two major presidential candidates don not care. And this is what the Occupy Wall Street movement is all about people who do care. It is about too good people saying " I got mine. Why don't your have yours." The close their eyes and ears to the suffering of others. They live off the working poor class in our country and a vast underclass overseas who are making the things we use. It is more about people of good will who call themselves Conservatives committing sins of omissions. All of us have to open our eyes and ears to what is really happening and not isolate ourselves behind closed doors. We can not say "I got mine. Why don't you have yours." We need to find out why we lost the way we were and the the way it was.
Today, we have Conservatives who foster Liberal Capitalism and Liberals like President Obama who bailed out big money, married them to big government and created a new kind of State Capitalism. No matter who does it , it is still a trickle down economy that will not work.
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