Jesus: The First Anarchist
"In God We Trust," reads the American dollar, mouths the American government.
The bosses put their hands on bibles and take office, they put their hands on
bibles and swear to be truthful and honest and follow the teachings of the
people's God.
But are they following God's will? Have they ever been?
JESUS: AN ANARCHIST?
Throughout history Jesus Christ has been regarded as a revolutionary, but an
anarchist?
Yes, the answer. As time has passed and covered the once passionate spirit in
commonality, however, Jesus' true meaning has been lost in Sundays and
collection baskets. Jesus' true meaning is that of the anarchist.
"Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass ...
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you, this poor widow put in more than all the other
contributors to the treasury. For they have contributed from their surplus
wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole
livelihood," says Jesus, teaching us an important lesson, one he stressed
throughout his ministry. Jesus taught that the poor would be raised up, that the
powerful, the bosses as modern day anarchists say, will be layed low. Jesus
talks of the kingdom of God, we today talk of Anarchy.
The gospel of Luke, chapter 12, presents to us a wonderful group of stories in
which Jesus' underlying Anarchism is revealed. Luke 12:15, "Take care to guard
against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of
possesions." And what is capitalism but a system by which the greedy and
scrupulous are made stronger, the dependant and the honest pushed aside? Luke
12:18-21, "There was a rich man... and he said, 'This is what I shall do: I
shall tear down my barns and build ...
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