Preaching The Economic Gospel, In the Streets, In Large Numbers

WHAT WE REALLY NEED in America, and for that matter around the world, is a revolution. A revolution espousing the values of Jesus. Why not spread a little Christian value up and down America's streets, in the form of a protest against the status quo, a status quo which is decidedly non Christ-like? Lest we forget, Jesus was himself quite the revolutionary, quite the social and economic reformer. No, he didn't come to overthrow the Hebrew word, but he did, sure as manna lines our greedy pockets, come to augment it a mite. He came, in part, to bring a new economic gospel, one of sharing. So let's do this: let's get out into the streets, and stay there, like the anti-war protesters of old, like the occupiers of Wall Street of later vintage. All protests are good protests. There should be millions of us, in every major city in the world, just for emphasis. We'll all be carrying signs, of sturdy cardboard and plastic, to allow the weakest among us to sign up. And on each sign, at the top, it will say: Render Unto Caesar. Then, just below, will appear the message: Give Unto The Poor. On down, towards the bottom, will appear the words: To Go To Heaven, Be Poor. And there you will have it. The essential message of Jesus Christ, and the perfect prescription for world prosperity and peace. Fascinating, how seldom this obvious economic philosophy is espoused and preached by Christians at the pulpit, or anywhere else, even though the man himself clearly articulated and promulgated it. Here in America, we love our capitalism, and hence, we tend, since most of us tend towards both Christianity AND capitalism, - strange bedfellows at the very least - to ignore, by sweeping under the pew, the obviously socialistic, redistributionist word of Christ. When it comes to redistributing wealth from rich unto poor, this Jesus guy was, as they say, hard core. So let's get out and publicize the truth of Christ a bit. And since these particular words of Christ are so seldom heard, and yet so true and so seminal to what the Prince of Peace actually taught, truly revolutionary they shalt be.