Teaching Justice

After the devastation in South east Asia a year ago, a child was lauded on the front page of a local paper for getting a hundred fifty dollars contributed to tsumani aid. What she is learning is not generosity, but pitance generosity and a romantic view of the world. She sacrificed a little money and so learned that feeling good about what she did is all that is necessary. She learned nothing about justice. She learned nothing about making an important choice between spending hundreds of billions of dollars on war and a few millions on chairity. This is not the way we teach our children the way of the Christ. Sacrifice for others is much more expensive than this article teaches.

A social and political policy that allows and encourages the rich to be rich with the view that everyone has the chance to be rich is not just a mistake. It is a lie. For the people who preach that know it will not happen. People who earn $6.50 an hour will never earn enough from the stock market to retire.

Shame on the politicians and conservative Christians who preach such tripe.