God Damn Wall Street!
Saturday January 31, 2009
Categories: Christians, Poverty
Ok, I had to get a little Jeremiah Wright off my chest because the disgusting behavior of Wall Street while our economy crumbles has made it tough to maintain equanimity. The rip off disgrace of Bernie Madeoff, the spa adventures of...
Filed Under: AIG Bail Out, Bernie Madeoff, Christianity, Jerimiah Wright, John Thain, Matthew 25, Money, politics and morality, politics and religion, Wall St
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Diana Butler Bass and Paul Raushenbush both stand firmly within the Mainline Protestant tradition and, along with guest bloggers of all religious backgrounds are dedicated to the revival of religious progressivism and its influence in American politics.
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Diana Butler BassDiana Butler Bass is a commentator and scholar in American religion. She is the author of seven books including A People's History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story (HarperOne, 2009).
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Why don't you get this upset over wasteful government spending? Spending that is either forcibly taxed, unwisely borrowed, or created (thus, weakening our dollar). They spend close to a billion dollars every 3 hours (24/7/365). The country should be indignant over this.
Quite offended by you cursing with Gods name .U have the right to speak your mind but it is so way uncool to curse with Gods name !
God Damn Wall Street sounds exactly right to me. It feels good just to type it and I'm generally quite reluctant to curse.
It's those on Wall Street who are saying "God damn to everyone else, I'm making sure I'm taken care of because it's going to get worse before it gets better." Don't underestimate Wall Street. They're not clueless; they know exactly what they're doing and why. And that is why they can't be trusted with bail out money, as has already been proven.
Why don't you get this upset over wasteful government spending?
You mean like the trillion dollars it will cost to fight Bush's immoral, irresponsible war in Iraq?
Think about that: One trillion dollars of our money - to say nothing of the cost in lives and livelihoods for our soldiers and Iraqi civilians - wasted on this war. One trillion dollars that could be strengthening health care, improving schools, rebuilding roads and bridges, or not being spent and added to our debt...
Pretty clever, James. You managed to avoid my point.
So, you do/don't think the government spends too much money and wastes it?
And by the way, the bail-outs of the last year cost more than World War II did IN TODAY'S DOLLARS.
Furthermore, the government squandered OUR social security, but yet you trust them with health care? Do you really understand the ramifications of socialized health care? Also, schools don't need more money. We're spending an ENORMOUS amount on education. Believe it or not, throwing money at something to "fix it" is not always going to work. And your state should be responsible for your state's roads and bridges. Finally, your comment "money...not being spent" is what tells me everything about your thinking. You actually think the government might have not spent the money otherwise? The government is not rational like your family and my family when we have extra money. They will ALWAYS spend it.
The truth is the government is going to destroy our economy. This is why our founder's wanted a loosely associated federal government.
Brother Paul, I have no problem at all with your prophetic preaching. You're doing exactly what a prophet is supposed to do -- call the people back to God's way and to God's justice.
I didn't get a job bonus this year; in fact, I'm about to lose my job. But I'm still giving money and resources like food to local charities, especially through my church. The hardest part is learning not to spend money I don't have, because spending money one doesn't have has been the primary engine of our warped economy.
The Institute for Progressive Christianity has published a new white paper on "Reclaiming Capitalism Through Principles of Distributive Justice." You can find it here.http://www.instituteforprogressivechristianity.org/?q=node/65337
Wow, what a title for an article. I just really don't understand why people are always giving God a last name such as that! I'm not even going to read the article. I just want to give my comments on the title, if that's okay. Let me tell you. Anytime anyone (it doesn't matter who) says G. D., I go off the grid. I always tell them please don't damn God because He has never damned you. You place yourself in the situations you go via. I tell them that every thing that they do will always have a reaction.
This morning I read Amos 2 and 3 and thought for sure he was writing about the people in the credit industry. May God deliver us from our reliance on credit, and may God remove from power all those who make profits off of other people's financial difficulties. Amen.
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