For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.- David Rockefeller of Standard Oil, Chase Manhattan and the Council on Foreign Relations, from his Memoirs in 2002.
Capital must protect itself in every way... Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.- JP Morgan - Questionable quote, reported by John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) Tycoon
The Spirit of the Christ was in the time of Jesus described to be "whatever you have done unto the least of these, you've done it unto me" [Matthew 25]. Even Christian's themselves buy into a Capitalistic ideology that looks at the "least of these," the thirsty, the hungry, the homeless, the rif-raf in prison and say, "let them rot."
If at any time, the now Christian ideology of "anti-christ" were alive and well--that time is now. As Bush famously stated, “This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base” (insert the usual Satanic giggle). The blinded "Christian Nation" has been standing far too long upon the precipice of a high mountain and drooling over the power that the world holds, abandoning those at the bottom for more monetary gain.
The man whom Christians uphold as their God, they abandon, failing to recognize how closely he identified himself with the poor and "criminals," while he consistently reprimanded the power structure Capitalist's are pushing us to bailout, leaving those most cherished by Jesus at the bottom, trampled in debt to the growing legion of masters at the top of the economic food chain.
Jesus also said, "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon" (Matthew 6:24/Luke 6:13). America is anti-christian as it is largely interested in the welfare of the wealthy, markets, and serving those power structures that take away freedom, in exchange of the sacrifice of the real Spirit of Christ, which is the love of the poor, with whom he identifies, recognizing God in people, and treating them in kind, saying "whatever you've done unto the least of these, you've done it unto me." At least half of America, on the conservative side and definitely 1% who make up the super-wealthy hate the poor and desire to create a world government where every Constitutional freedom is gone, the banks track our every move, and the commoners are enslaved as the poor and "criminals," not because they/we really are, but because "mammon" say's you're a criminal...you're not being a good consumer, not bowing at the alter of the power structure.
I use Christian theology to point this out because Jesus does not belong to those who simply call his name, but lives in those who actually live the life that values people over a market, the accumulation of money, and the fixation of Christians on "prosperity theology." Those who claim to be "elite" are really morally bankrupt and will come to nothing, but those who are "the least" will be first in the world because they embody in their forced poverty the power of "being," valuing life even where it's devalued, thrown out, sacrificed, like on a cross.
For the first time in a long time America has it's eye squarely on "Big Brother," the Banks who want to control everything, the money power structure. I wonder what choice we're going to make as a country? Can we raise up the "least of these" or will we sacrifice them, and ourselves to "the Beast"? Can we change the course and fulfillment of Christian prophecy? I certainly hope we can be wise as serpents, because that's who we're dealing with in the midst of the death-grip upon our lives.
Check out the Christian political movement attempting to live the life, the real life of Christ, hopefully with more than good intentions: Matthew 25 Network
