@PriestWalker @Plough Jesus, murdered within a week of cleansing the temple. Why? @RichardRohrOFM: “I have been a Catholic all my life and I have yet to hear a sermon or confession concerning the tenth commandment. The only game in town, it is called capitalism, and we live comfortably because of it.”
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The claim of dominant imagination, in both ancient Israel and in contemporary US ‘democratic capitalism,’ is a totalizing claim that does not permit any reality or any claim outside of its regime and certainly does not welcome any rival claim. This judgment can be tested by asking any would-be prophetic preacher to identify the topics that cannot be mentioned in church. The list of them reflects the totalizing exceptionalism that is given religious sanction and that seeks to silence any question about that claim. Walter Brueggemann The Practice of Prophetic Imagination
James Lawson, who invited Dr. King to Memphis for his fateful encounter, told me once he refers to King's murder as a 'crucifixion'. Why was Dr. King ["among the most hated men in America" @TheKingCenter] crucified? Why was Jesus crucified? We know why @UniteThePoor.
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Photo of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Kung and his words, "We must also realize that the problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be resolved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power."