Following Jesus and Annoying the One Percent
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/derek-penwell/following_jesus-_b_6146322.html Posted: 11/12/2014 5:08 pm EST Updated: 4 hours ago hadynyah via Getty Images In the aftermath of the recent elections in which candidates running on a platform that offered a perfunctory hat tip as it hurtled passed the middle class on the way to performing an unctuous curtsey before big money, I was once again struck by how the heavily metered halo of religious light around social issues distracts attention from economic positions, which from a religious standpoint, remain largely indefensible. After studying the Hebrew prophets or doing a casual reading of the Gospels, it takes exceptional intellectual and theological dexterity to come away thinking that our primary responsibility in civic life is to insulate the “job creators” from...