"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it."
Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010
LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
The Bible Is More Radical Than Just About Anyone in American Politics And the Media
Walter Brueggemann in a lecture at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC from Lent of last year from the left of Bernie Sanders.
Pretty much why Eden Seminary (where Brueggemann left a deep mark) made me a crazy radical leftist stooge who thinks taking care of the poor would mean everybody is taken care of (as opposed to taking care of the middle class (college, healthcare, jobs) and letting it "trickle down" to the poor).
Education for the poor, healthcare for the poor, housing for the poor (watching a documentary on the Black Panthers; amazing how much hasn't changed in 50 years, and nobody's talking about anything as radical as what they were asking for then, now), would improve the material lives of everyone above them as the benefits moved up. After all, as we've seen, benefits never really "trickle down." Not even from the middle.
Jesus is still a dangerous radical, as was his Father before him.
Pretty much why Eden Seminary (where Brueggemann left a deep mark) made me a crazy radical leftist stooge who thinks taking care of the poor would mean everybody is taken care of (as opposed to taking care of the middle class (college, healthcare, jobs) and letting it "trickle down" to the poor).
ReplyDeleteEducation for the poor, healthcare for the poor, housing for the poor (watching a documentary on the Black Panthers; amazing how much hasn't changed in 50 years, and nobody's talking about anything as radical as what they were asking for then, now), would improve the material lives of everyone above them as the benefits moved up. After all, as we've seen, benefits never really "trickle down." Not even from the middle.
Jesus is still a dangerous radical, as was his Father before him.
Adding: and we are still Rome; through and through.
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