Nobody got to HOARD the "loaves and fishes"...

Jesus was a SOCIALIST...sharing, caring, loving all as ONE...Nobody got to HOARD the loaves and fishes...

Did Jesus ever say, "I've got mine, don't come to me with your litany of needs?" For that matter did Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Mohammed or any of the other great spiritual leaders or teachers?

NO...

If 85% of people are considered "People of Faith" then why do we accept a culture that excoriates the weakest/helpless/neediest for being the
weakest/helpless/neediest? Not only do we accept it, for the most part WE promote it! Why indeed? Is it the LIES we are brain-washed with from childhood so we will keep our shoulder to the wheel of profits, or our FEAR of being ostracized, our EGOS needing to see ourselves as superior to those "beneath" us.... ALL of the above?

At a BBQ over the holiday I was asked, "Why should I work hard when there are "others" who don't, but get paid the same as me!?!" I responded, "When one of your children gets good grades while another doesn't do you stop feeding the one who doesn't, or do you still give them love, understanding and nourishment...encouragement?" "Well that's my family!" I was told indignantly... I replied, "We are all children of God are we not? Isn't God ALL-LOVING? And are WE not made in God's image and likeness?"

That short conversation illuminates the entire problem; "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses..." no longer applies, at least not in America. It has been replaced by, "I've got mine, don't come to me with your litany of needs!"

Today when you hear someone, or watch someone on TV, or listen to someone on the radio disparaging the "weakest/helpless/neediest" as being lazy or shiftless or a burden, rebel against the brain-washing! Recall the "loaves and fishes" and the love for ALL...

Duffy