Never ending Perversions

THE TWIN PILLARS OF modern American conservatism are capitalism and Christianity, which is to say, fire and gasoline. Have any two concepts ever mixed so poorly, with such disastrous results? Christians for a strong, prosperous, imperial America! Super patriotism, super piety, all rolled into one, resulting in a nation forever at war with someone or something, at war with drugs, terrorism, or communists, at war with concepts, forever hiding behind the sanctimonious shield of patriotism and piety, as scoundrels inevitably do. Go thy way, and sell whatsoever thou hast, and give unto the poor....render unto Caesar....what benefits the man who gains the entire world...a wealthy person is far less likely to enter into the kingdom of heaven than a camel is to pass through the eye of a needle....When it comes to redistribution of wealth, this guy was hard core. And he seemed to think that the government was a perfect mechanism to bring about aforementioned wealth redistribution. One would expect a "Christian nation" to be a society of modestly endowed citizens (financially), each having roughly equal financial assets, by virtue of everyone selling and giving unto each other, until nobody is rich, nobody is poor, and everyone is conforming to the desires of he whom they purport to follow. Joshua ben Joseph, the wine drinking, homeless socialist. Enter the Protestant Reformation, and thus emerges the money lending, interest charging, capital accumulating business person, rising to the middle class, then replacing the old landed aristocracy with a new, urban, super capitalized elite, which we have today. A beautiful economic philosophy of a beautiful person, perverted for the sake of profit and wealth. Enter the United states of America, the land where fire and gasoline are mixed without a second thought. A capitalized elite, standing on the shoulders of a working class whose labor is rendered as cheap as we can make it. Capitalists for Christ! Christians for a strong American military; for turning neither cheek, for making the world safe for corporate profit and christian capitalism! And, for good measure, why not bastardize his name into "Jesus", in deference to our Latin, Roman imperial roots. Why bother calling a man by the name he called himself, by the name his parents gave him? When the perversions begin, they need never end.