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Thank God another orgy of consumer spending and self gratification on the occasion of Christmas is over. Even Boxing Day has been perverted. The original Spirit of it was to give the surplus of gifts and food to those less fortunate in our midst, but it has turned into more self indulgent spending where people do selfish, crazy things to get at the stuff first.

The Bankers, the Merchants and the Corporate media they own are doing their utmost to get Jesus out of Christmas while Christmas sales make or break their merchandising year. They love to see the people rack up huge bills on their Bank credit cards and make the minimum payment.

What has happened to the people these last 2000 years? At the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem in Palestine, the Angels proclaimed ‘Glory to God in the Highest and on earth, Peace, Good Will to Men.’  Peace is no longer valued in this world as War is the way of the Future because there is not much Good Will left between people and Nations.

WARFARE WITHOUT LIMITS: A DARKENING HUMAN HORIZON

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
And the angel said to them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

Luke 2:8-14

At the end of His life, Jesus was arrested, tortured and crucified in Jerusalem after 3 years of struggle with the Jewish religious leadership in Judea and Samaria, known to the world Today as the Occupied West Bank in the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. His final Public humiliation of leadership in the HQ of the Jewish religion was the straw that broke the camel’s back and they were determined to eliminate Him.

The Priests of the Jewish Temple had a cozy relationship with the Bankers and Merchants operating out of the Temple Property. Like the Muslims in Mecca Today, in those days all the Jews living in the Diaspora of the ancient world had to make a Pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. Jerusalem was a vibrant bustling city filled with activity.

As part of the ritual, those many Jewish Pilgrim-tourists had to make a gift offering to God in care of the Priests of the Temple. Because it was for God, only the best as approved by the Priests were kosher. It was the Priests who eventually consumed all the burnt sheep, other food gifts and the merchandise the people offered as Gift Offerings to God.

Because the Jews of the Diaspora had the currencies of their own lands, they 1st went to the money changers (banks) where their money was exchanged for the special “Temple currency.” It was with this kosher money they could buy the kosher merchandise from the merchants who rented their stalls on Temple Property from the Priests. The same merchandise and gift offerings to God could be had for half the price in the streets of Jerusalem.

With a little imagination I could see ancient Jerusalem teeming with people in the Temple and on the narrow streets daily as we see in Ottawa only on CanaDa Day.

Jesus arrives on this scene and obviously freaked out.  I don’t mean that in any pejorative sense. As he violently overturned all the Banker and Merchant tables, it was in righteous indignation. That’s what got Him busted then, and would get anyone busted doing the same thing Today

And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but you have made it a den of thieves.
And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.

Mark 11:15-18

In this world where Trust is broken down and Truth is fallen in the Streets, with thieves rampant in high places and low, the People still have not recognized the Spiritual symbolism of Christ being crucified between two thieves.

No one needs God, any other Judge or anyone to tell them being ripped off for anything is bad when it happens to you. Knowing that, there is a mentality these Days everyone is doing it so why not spread it around? This attitude on the part of the people from the greatest to the least leads to destruction,

Who would dare to speak Truth to Power these Days?

Don’t lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light.
But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?
Which of you by taking thought can add one inch to his height?
And why take thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For after all these things do the Gentiles/Atheists seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.

But seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Take therefore no thought for tomorrow: for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Matthew 6:19-34

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The Chinese labourer Today is making wages that would be impossible to live on in the nominally Christian developed societies. We could live on those wages of the early 60s when we were creating the wealth in our system. This is their 1st crack at the stuff that makes up the American Pie or Dream.

Now the appetites for material want are unleashed in the 1,500,000,000 people of China.

There are Chinese millionaires and billionaires flaunting their wealth, and inevitably, the 1,500,000,000 Chinese workers will want more. That’s the way of all flesh.

As the cost for Chinese goods rise in tandem with stagnant or falling wages in the West, with increased unemployment, inevitably the Global economy as it is erected now will arrive at a tipping point.

The Chinese Leaders have a very tough job in steering the country with policies that blend the traditional Chinese Culture putting the Common Good above the individual, with American Capitalism that puts the Individual  above any notion of the Common Well being.

The world has an interest in China succeeding in this great challenge  and the world should hope they find the right way and balance so that all individuals are Free within the Greater Free Society.

God help us all if the 1,500,000,000 Chinese mirror American Capitalism as it is Today with it’s notion of the rugged individual acting independently of any notion of the Common Good.

A long time ago when wages in our system were at the level the Chinese are now earning, I was able to maintain an above average life style, definitely not rich except in Spirit, earning the above average salary of $2 an hour in Montreal when the average worker was making $1.50/hr.

Rents, Restaurants, movies and entertainment, clothing and food costs were geared to those averages. Two big brown paper bags full of groceries cost $10 compared to two little plastic bags costing $40 Today. Cigarettes cost .29c a pack and the labourers could go into a Taverne after work and get 10 – 8 oz. glasses of beer for $1. The waiter was happy with a .15c tip. A beer in a Bar cost .50c. Gas was really cheap when we measured it in gallons A gallon cost less than a litre Today. The average worker could afford to live reasonably, meeting the basic needs for their families of 2-6 children. Greed and jealousy was muted unlike these days.

The introduction of TV and insatiable want upset that balance between owners, management and labour.

The Developed Nations being a small minority of the earth’s population, have had a long head start in exploiting the earth’s resources enriching ourselves. The world’s system of unbridled consumption is unsustainable as it has been constructed. Without fundamental change, the Global economy will eventually collapse and fall on our heads.

The children will pay for the sins of the parents, especially as this generation puts off making the hard decisions and adjustments that will be necessary to ensure the continuation of the human race.
Related to this article – ‘THE KING´S TERRIFYING NIGHTMARE‘

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”

— U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins) Ref: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)

There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.

William Jennings Bryan, July 9, 1896.

Here it is 115 years later and we are still having the same unresolved debate.

Most people don’t know what’s written between the covers of the “Good Book” a.k.a. the Bible. This gives Christian TV preachers free reign to project a vision based on few of the thousands of Bible verses, each one having an insight or perspective of the total picture of God and this world.

As much as they say you have to live by what’s written in the Bible, you will never hear the Pope, Cardinals, Bishops and Christian TV preachers discuss these express words that cannot be misinterpreted for anything other than implying regime change in this world.

Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Behold, the HIRE OF THE LABOURERS who have reaped down your fields, which is of you KEPT BACK BY FRAUD, cries: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
Be patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws nigh.
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Behold, we count them happy which endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest you fall into condemnation.

James 5