10/11/14

Secular Ways of Power (the Sword) Have Increased

Concentration of wealth and political power aren't new of course. They are functions of original sin applied to current economics. Economics are inextricably related to politics and environment, and as Clauswitz noted politics is a continuation of war through other means. The way of the world and the power of the sword expressed in the Roman military power is not nearly as plainly separable today from church affairs. Driving a car and burning fuel may give money to those sponsoring terrorism, enhance global warming or oppressive intellectuals developing alternate energy.The man speaking of peace may order the deaths of hundreds of thousands or millions while the politician advocating military intervention may actually reduce human casualties. Creating a new drug to save thousands from death may allow more to starve. Drilling for oil to power ambulances may create thousands of drownings from sea level rises and hurricanes. It is challenging to separated the thousands of ways of harming individuals with modern technology, networking and political power that did not exist in former generations from things that grow like gardens for example (excluding genetically engineered food used as bioweapons of course).


If large numbers of tropical fish will disappear by 2050 due to global warming that may stimulate more mass migration north and conflict south as people move to avoid starving. Failures by first world citizens of democracy to take responsibility for food production and replacement methods of aquaculture in the tropics could cause loss of life. Political inactivism or pursuit of the tangential homoculture agenda while delegating authority to the billionaires and stock networks to purchase political influence further assigns malevolent  neglect to the populace even as they seek to blame their ruling evil agents avarcice.

https://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&cf=all&topic=snc&siidp=d318c7a97b044eb089ba85ef05b353e4837c&ict=ln loss of fish in tropics

Mass media may indoctrinate people and work may require allegiance to evil or worldliness. Christian pastors separate from day to day economic facts may not comprehend the pressures of secular economy and fail to develop adequate Christian priesthood of believers training and economic-social reinforcing organizational structure themselves. Paul worked as a skilled tradesman and understood the present economy-he was not just a tithed priest-adviser. People may be conformed to the image of the world-spirit and find themselves in a totalized social environment where all are required to be in effect enslaved to the corporate and secular ruling power.

I quoted  Karl Barth on an historical example in this post...  http://garycgibson.blogspot.com/2014/10/original-sin-consolidating-wealth-and.html

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