Donnerstag, 25. Dezember 2014

Happy Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Birthday!

Happy Christmas!

I want to just say the anti-Empire, anti-capitalist impulse in Jesus--Jesus the baby, Jesus the crucified. The crucified Jesus is innocent. The baby born in the manger is innocent. But the representatives of the empire seek to destroy the innocent. So Herod tells the wise men from the east, tell me where he is that I may come and worship him, but wants to kill him, the innocent baby. And then Pilate, the representative of the empire, cannot be a good man and save the innocent Jesus, but then throws him to the mob. But if you read the text correctly, it is not the mob that condemns Jesus. The leaders are in the crowd. And so the leaders tied to the empire, to the system of oppression, use Twitter or Facebook or media to influence the crowds' opinion of the innocent man. And so I think the love impulse of Christmas should propel us to fight any system that destroys innocent babies or innocent families or innocent men and women because of profit, because of greed, because of a impulse to power. And that's what we're seeing, not just in the United States of America, but across the world. Power is used to destroy innocents, right? And then there is no champion, there is no outcry, there is no movement, there is no public--what is the public policy that protects the innocent in housing, right, in schooling? 
Rev. David Bullock  (mit Chris Hedges und Paul Jay auf The Real News)


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