Saturday, November 26, 2011

Divine Wealth.

From time immemorial the state and church have connived to amass wealth from the masses. Irenaecus the Greek orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem was involved in shady property deals. Divine kings and divine priests are often linked to material concerns like these shady property deals which are prevalent all over. Sometimes kings too take umbrage under divine rights to rule and assume spiritual authority to protect them from temporal challenges. Charles the I, King of Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Sultans &, become custodians of their land and mosques in their oil rich countries.

Preventing this kind of dynastic divinity amassing wealth is presumably one reason why so many religions require their leaders to be celibate, yet this alone cannot address this problem especially in Islamic states where poly gamy flourishes and other religions where marriage is permitted.
The Catholic Church, Islam and many religions as the self defined owner of the true spirit, denounces Marxism as materialistic They view the desire of the poor to eat, feed, clothe their children, and better their lives as materialistic. The dualistic system separates flesh from the spirit and then sermonizes that the lifelong degradation of one leads to eternal liberation of the other.

One has to just look at the Vatican, Bishops, wealthy churches, mosques and temples and these divine people who have spent most of their lives in a heady atmosphere of gold, velvet, good wine and food; who have never spent time sweating starving or shaking with cold, but are liberally endowed with accumulated material wealth.
Isn’t it strange that when the world’s richest industrialists, capitalists, and business magnates like Bill gates, Warren Buffet, and many others; are tripping over each other along with N.G.O.’s to share and disperse their wealth into altruistic and philanthropically meaningful pursuits to help the underprivileged, religions are silent.
The Church, Sultans, sheikhs, and despotic rulers and religious heads of wealthy mosques, temples are using their wealth to profligate their own religion.
It is not the poor, who need “redemption” but these fabulously rich Sultans, Sheikhs, and princes of religion.

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