This post is my response to an article whose link (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/religious-right-now/post/the-impossibility-of-a-socialist-jesus/2011/08/16/gIQAEOAHJJ_blog.html) was contained in an email from the “ACLJ”, which was forwarded to me by a Christian friend of mine. People are always reading into the words of the Bible their own point of view. Socialists see a socialist Jesus. Capitalists see a capitalist Jesus. Reading … Continue reading
Quotes of leading Zionist personalities in this essay are from the International Socialist Review (isreview.org). I cannot personally vouch for their accuracy (or for their proper contextualization), though I suspect they are accurate given the internal logic of political Zionism and the goal of creating a Jewish-majority State. In other words, I believe that … Continue reading
A book from Steve Bhaerman, sounds good: http://transpartisan.us/?p=129 I especially like the “Book Theme” blurb: “This is not a grassroots revolutionary uprising to overthrow the system…it is a transpartisan evolutionary upwising to overgrow the system” –Swami Beyondananda (aka Steve Bhaerman). I have no problem with revolution: we need one. But “overthrow” is useless; experience has shown … Continue reading
Sky and Round Earth Truth and Relativity The “absolutists” think we are still on a flat earth. They haven’t really—not really—fully grasped the revolutionary implications of the historical encounters between science and church. The church has tried to play “catch up”, and has tried to assimilate views of the world it previously … Continue reading
1 Samuel 15: “This is what the LORD of hosts has to say: ‘I will punish what Amalek did to Israel when he barred his way as he was coming up from Egypt. Go, now, and attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban. Do not spare him, but … Continue reading
