Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Class Warfare



Fuck Your Prayer, Show Me Solidarity

She's angry. Angry for good, legitimate reasons. She is consumed by the injustice that swallows her and her anger is directed toward the 'justice' proposed by certain liberal Evangelicals. But she has very, very good points. I have felt anger toward some of these people for years. The situation really is class warfare. It is all around us. Our society is built upon the model (and I was just being criticized for not acknowledging that belief just the other night!).

I live in the same world, and hold very similar, though not quite as extreme, debt. I am ill, but to this point not quite ill enough to lose my livelihood. I am older, and therefore not as bitter about lost opportunity, lost hopes and a lost future. I am not as angry. I fully expect to lose everything before the end of my life, and I expect to live in poverty. I don't know the form it will take, but when illness strikes (as the author has so capably noted) the ability to fight back is taken away. Our society needs to put this wrong right. And it won't, because our society is controlled by the elite, by those with wealth. My country is on the path away from possible just resolution of ills to a model based on the U.S. model, which panders to the wealthy and elite as if they have done something special and important. Apparently,we are supposed to love the wealthy simply because they do what we haven't been able to do - make money. And we're expected to die and get out of the way so they can make more...


Tuesday, December 27, 2011

'Disgustingly' is



the correct word to use.

Top 10 Disgustingly Expensive Gifts

People have always sought wealth and some have looked for the most ostentatious way to display their wealth. Here's a few of the most incredibly vulgar...


Friday, December 02, 2011

While I agree, to an extent,


that the 'Occupy' protests point toward a utopian goal and consequently are striving for an impossible objective, does that mean that the goal shouldn't be strived for? If, for most of us, sainthood is impossible, should we stop striving toward it?

Christians Divided on Support for Occupy Movement

Why am I not surprised that people start throwing out the 'leftist' epithet every time someone protests about greed and unfairness? Anytime you attack the American Dream and free enterprise and strive for justice and equality you're a leftist or socialist...


Wednesday, July 13, 2011

I know I do


Pity the Poor Rich

It's got to be tough...