What kind of Christians are these?

by M. Legault

The Bible warns of "wolves in sheep's clothing". This can be viewed to be people who present themselves as being devout. They may be Christians; and may be among other religious faiths. However, their commitments can be manifested in ways that are far from being in the apparent spirit of the Bible, and other devout texts. Jesus Christ in the apparent overall spirit of the Bible, spread messages of peace, lovingkindness, and social justice. This apparent spirit of social justice promotes the need to eradicate poverty, as a manifestation on unjust social oppression, within messages of salvation. It also promotes the need to focus on what happens to people, rather than on what happens to net revenue.

Indeed, the emphasis on such unjust societal oppression appears to generate results like the breakdown of a vital empathy of individuals for each other. It is apparent that the expressed heart of those self-professed Christian elites (who legitimate the workings of the prevailing American-led "global capitalistic economic system") are anything but "Christian", in the spirit of the Bible. These elites who claim to be "Christians" actually operate within a religious commitment to "Capitalism", which is devouted to Mammon, rather than 'G-d'.

Mammon pivots on worship to its altars of the greed for financial-equivalent gain, that is driving humanity's current path of social and civic disintegration, and environmental destruction. Individuals, and groups that actually revered G-d "as the creator of the Universe and all living things in Nature", as expressed in the Book of Genesis in the Bible, would neither actively execute, nor be apathetically prevailing over initiatives that arm the systematized destruction of Nature, along with human quality-of-survival.

Capitalism, as further propelled by Corporate Globalization has become a kind of societal cancer that is inflicted by the worshippers of Mammon, that mischievously disguise themselves as "Christians", in order to deflect attention on their intent to execute destructive strategies, in a drive to satisfy their crass materialistic ambitions.

Did you ever notice that these apparent "Christian" poseurs (led in Canada, in part, by Stephen Harper's "Republican Party of the North") seem to always champion the represented "vital" necessity of corporate tax cuts, and other "corporate welfare" schemes, but at the same time argue against redressing poverty, providing social housing, educational grants (in order to facilitate public accessibility), human rights affirmations, and environmental protection of the Earth that was supposedly created by G-d?

In the United States, in the name of supporting commercial profit for elites, its professed Christian leadership correspondingly champions the right of the powerful 'owners of capital' to be able to exploit minorities, the disenfranchised, and the weak, including the sick, within the context of their greed-driven private healthcare system. In this U.S., this type of commitment and operation is called "freedom".

Yet:

"no man can serve two masters; ye cannot serve both God and mammon." - Bible (Matthew 6:24)

How do you recognize the worshippers of Mammon? They will often, indeed, smile to the world, like "raving wolves in sheep's clothing".

The most hypocritical worshippers of Mammon will go to Church, sing great hymns, and say "Amen" every Sunday. Meanwhile during the rest of the time, they turn a blind eye to despoiling and the rape of fellow human beings and of the Earth, which goes on in the name of commercial profit. Constituencies of worshippers of Mammon, will build great monuments, skyscrapers and structures including roadways as portrayals of "commercial progress", while presiding over homelessness, sweatshops, child labour, and horrific slums.

They will talk of peace, while waging war. Within this milieu, they will also talk of "protecting the life", while creating mounting carnage and casualties of the 'innocent'. In so doing, they will ignore the Commandment that "Thou shall not kill", while also supporting penalties of death.

Among them will be the most professed devotees to Christ and G-d. However, in their deeds, they perpetuate and execute strategies that are designed to obtain fascistic dominance and commercial gain for themselves, as 'pagan gods of capitalism', at the expense of others.

In order to accomplish this, they will prevail over horrendous atrocities in pursuit of their sought bleak "New World Order". Their words speak of "freedom" while their heart expresses bigotry, racism, oppression, violence, and gingoism, through various plots. Their words will speak of the importance of spreading democracy, while they spread oppression through pre-emptive military interventions and a "Orwellian" Police State that operates by their exploitation of the fear that is created as a result of their own machinations. While they proclaim a desire for "security" and "order" to their supporters, (who engorge themselves with gingoism and vengeance), insecurity and chaos will follow them.

Ye Hypocrites. These worshippers of Mammon as they ignore and leave behind a defiling trail of environmental destruction, and social injustice, will proclaim in their Churches that G-d created the Earth and all of its living creatures.

Jesus Christ, in the Bible, expressed apparent messages of lovingkindness, peace, and salvation for the poor, against oppressors. It is apparent that Jesus Christ also sought to heal the sick without any sought emphasis on securing commercial gain.

In contrast, worshippers of Mammon will support and pass laws against universal access to healthcare, and will thereby deprive the sick, who do not have access to superior commercial resources of vitally needed treatment. The best healthcare will be reserved for the greatest possessors of commercial wealth; who can in turn generate sought commercial profit, status, and power for private "health care management providers". These worshippers of Mammon will also support other enactments that favour the commercially rich over a growing institutionalized poor -- who are often without basic access to food, clothing, shelter, and housing, and who live in worsening conditions of alienation, social malaise, and ensuing crime. These worshippers of Mammon seek to enhance the commercial self-aggrandizement of large greed-driven corporate interests -- that destroy the sacred environment in their pursuit of oil, and other pillagings of the Earth, supposedly created by G-d.

These worshippers of Mammon will also spread messages which proselytize that their activities support "economic growth", when in fact, their activities when critically examined spread economic destruction of economic well-being among large sectors of the population.

These worshippers of Mammon will betray their worship at the altar of Greed, through violent means. They will seek to obtain technology that can facilitate their desires for draconian social control against other human beings; and they will in the name of "freedom", destroy effective freedom, in their substantive pursuit of tyranny (which yields rewards of money, status, and power).

These worshippers of Mammon, in the name of the apparent self-absorbed pursuit of their greed, will prevail and secure laws which ignore the vital sacred protection of the Heavens and the Earth, (from the ozone layer, to the oceans, to the ancient forests, and all its living species; and the quality of the air we breath).

Worshippers of Mammon will speak of salvation and the Holy Spirit, while breaking the spirit of human beings as mere objects to their greed and crass materialism.

Worshippers of Mammon will defile vital ecosystems, and will as well as spread diseases, toxins, and other poisons that create unspeakable human suffering, toward the goal of generating commercial profits for vaunted "private enterprise" activities. These activities will be executed in the name of "economic growth" that substantively cause decline in the quality-of-living.

Such sought commercial profit will be achieved by unethically passing off social and environmental costs onto the rest of society. These costs include polluted waterways, air, and lands the result in debilitating ailments, diseases, famines, and many other human and ecosystem related catastrophes.

Arguably the embracing of the spirit of the Bible would inspire a people-oriented economic system, in association with principles of human rights, peace, social justice, and environmental protection would require the rejection of the greed driven capitalist economic system.

It is apparent that Stephen Harper's "Republican Party of the North", for example, merely uses "Christianity" as an apparent euphemism for their embracing of a "religion of capitalism", along with its dysfunctional context of Corporate Globalization.