Marx lived twice as long as Jesus and eventually died of pleurisy. He has been vilified by many for calling the workers of the world to unite against their exploiters. Jesus was murdered in his early thirties for calling out the inequities of his day and those who perpetuated it.
All efforts to theologically sanitize his murder aside, the fact is Jesus was NAILED to a rough wooden cross which he was forced to carry on his back to the hill where he would be further brutalized. Like many who suffered a similar fate he was tortured while many looked on, and hung there till he was dead. His was the kind of fate that the theologian Bonhoeffer aptly described in his declaration that: "When God calls a man, He bids him come and die." This for Bonhoeffer was "the cost of discipleship".
Those who have an interest in maintaining the status quo have always sought to demonize the voices that declare in favor of the poor and the disadvantaged. Popular Christianity is a reflection of the prevailing moral and political values in our society. In this context those who act out in contravention of those values are invariably isolated and targeted for elimination.
All efforts to theologically sanitize his murder aside, the fact is Jesus was NAILED to a rough wooden cross which he was forced to carry on his back to the hill where he would be further brutalized. Like many who suffered a similar fate he was tortured while many looked on, and hung there till he was dead. His was the kind of fate that the theologian Bonhoeffer aptly described in his declaration that: "When God calls a man, He bids him come and die." This for Bonhoeffer was "the cost of discipleship".
Those who have an interest in maintaining the status quo have always sought to demonize the voices that declare in favor of the poor and the disadvantaged. Popular Christianity is a reflection of the prevailing moral and political values in our society. In this context those who act out in contravention of those values are invariably isolated and targeted for elimination.
The false equivalencies that we witness from the mouths of the servants of this status quo are nothing more than attempts to muddle the consciousness of the uncritical among us. These preachers and politicians mouthing off about the assault on their fictitious “Savior” by those who seek to address the persistent inequities in our society are for the most part just charlatans “making a living”.
And so the poor continue to perish while political opportunists and their lackeys spook the people with their visions of the ghost of Marx. And for this "Jesus wept".
And so the poor continue to perish while political opportunists and their lackeys spook the people with their visions of the ghost of Marx. And for this "Jesus wept".
The struggle continues...
