Love your mother

 

It's good now and then, to reflect and consider that the American dream has a long and inglorious tradition of being built on someone else's nightmare.

Our "superior" Western cultures have always been the pillars of trinitarian monotheism.... Empire, greed and self. Most indigenous cultures in the Americas had a profound and respectful concept of creator. Some of the pre-contact cultures were much more Godly and honorable than their brutal colonizers. Propositional faith condemns us to blindness. When I see the character of Jesus I honor that character regardless of creed.

Col. 3:5 says that covetousness is idolatry among a few other sins. So how devout does a capitalist have to be before they are justified before creator. It's never been about the form. It's always been about the heart. People who have been consumed by the fire of creators compassion know this but institutional religion tends to pour water on our passion in it's quest for conformity. Hebrew tradition is full of the splendor of creations glory. Your defense is of stoic Greek dualism and to some degree gnostic thought that dismisses the spirituality of creation. Western theology is a vehicle of Greek paradigms and the Western church is the priesthood of conquering Empire. Every atrocity done in the name of progress and expansion was done so with the sanction of the church both Catholic and Protestant. There were edicts and whole doctrines provided for everything from genocide to slavery. Jesus never has needed an organized religion to express the Kingdom. Caesar on the other hand may have played the cleverest game of all time when he seduced the early Jesus movement into the bed of Empire.

Power flows through a completed circuit. The power from Creator finds completion as we connect to our roots in creation.