Power and Love
Power And Love
Many people seem to want a god of power so that their power god can fix things, prevent bad things and keep good things going. But what if God does not care much for power, but does care about love. Why? The power god fixes things for people, or they so hope. The God of Love wants people to fix things. God is about relationship that bonds. There is a bible story for this. There was a king who had all power, and a servant who had no power but was in debt
Private Property
Private Property
Private property, a bedrock of capitalism, is not much for sharing. "I have mine. You get yours." If there is sharing it is called charity. Capitalism has done a lot of good things, but individualism as part of its economic religion does not do much for the have nots. "If they would only work," say those who have. Charity or government taxes fill in for those who have not, and in some places that is never enough. It was no better in feudal times when
