I’ll Ask Them, Jesus

John F. Borowski has posted an article at CommonDreams.Org that posits some interesting questions about religion, hate, and arrogance. “The Republican effort to highjack morals” is, he claims, “as transparent as George Bush being the environmental, education or fiscally responsible “president.” Imagine answering Jesus on these questions:

Has George Bush received a mandate to liquidate the creation? George Bush has not addressed the issue of mass extinction or the threat of global warming. How can despoilment of the earth be moral? Even the bible (Ecclesiastes) acknowledges this: “Yea, they have all one breathe; so that a man (or woman) hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.”

Do the supporters of George Bush think that it is moral to let an economic system treat its most treasured asset, children, as nothing less than prostitutes for profit? Where is the moral outcry against selling thongs to eight year olds and targeting children with consumerism at home and at school? Soda pop companies and fast food entities now act like big tobacco in its quest to lead children into the quagmire of diabetes and osteoporosis. We are selling out children as commodities to an economic system that increasingly has no ethical parameters.

Do the “elite moralists” who claim this election was about values believe they have the right to tell a girl or woman who is the victim of incest or rape or a domineering man that they cannot decide for themselves about the option of abortion? Where are the programs to make birth control free? Where are economic safeguards for those in poverty who lack medical care? Jesus tells me that “ the care of children” does not end after nine months in the womb! The real work begins after birth: health care for children and an equal playing field for women in education and work options. If moral pundits have such disdain for abortion why don’t they show the same disdain for those who place women in desperate situations?

Is it moral to lie about war? Is it moral to allow our beloved young soldiers, both men and women to be killed and maimed for a war that seems to be justified with ideals as solid as the shifting sands of a beach? Where is the outcry for the tens of thousands of dead Iraq children? Is it not the height of immorality to term them as collateral damage: for in the eyes of God, no child is marginal or expendable.

Ask the moralists is it right to steal? Corporations steal from the American treasury like uncommon criminals: their thievery destroys families and denies the elderly of pensions. Lives are ruined, yet economists boast about Darwinian economics?