Livelihood

Ecclesiasticus 34:21-22

A meagre diet is the very life of the poor,
to deprive them of it is to commit murder.

To take away a fellow-man's livelihood is to kill him
to deprive an employee of his wages is to shed blood.


I think it is coming to this point.  What an evil mess everything is in.  The thought that came to me today regarding this was:

If a leader of a state, or those in government advocate and delight in the right to kill innocent babies, and they were elected by the people to enforce that right, what do people expect?  What response should we expect from governors whose popularity was due to their unfettered belief that babies should be able to be killed for the convenience of the mother?  We all know that very few babies are murdered because the mothers life is at stake.  We should just be honest about it.

So, now it has advanced.  This spirit of Death that everyone wanted a right to.  Nearly every business has been closed.  The State and the Government have taken livelihoods in effect by the lock downs that have been enforced in many states.  As it says above, to do that is to kill a man. I would imagine that the same people who felt smug and assured in voting for legal, radical abortion rights never dreamed this same government would bring death to them.

I am surprised the Church is remaining so silent on all of this.  Apparently, after the wicked shaming from the sex scandals, they have been rendered to their proper place in the corner.  This is usually the desired effect from shaming.  It is a quick, useful tool in getting dominance and control over another in a relatively short period of time.  It's also great at silencing and destroying souls.

There have been a few prominent shamers that have caught my attention...those in positions of power but falsely portraying humility, service, unity.  Obama and Pope Francis are two of the most prominent and powerful figures that employ this tool.  It saddens me to see from Pope Francis, but does not surprise me at all from Obama. They are very similar in their methods of bringing about their ideals. 

Anyways, my real concern is what we are all looking forward to in the Church and to a lesser extent in the world.  So strange that Social Justice has been so prominent in the Church for the last decade or more, in fact it's essentially "our faith."  But this whole debacle, people being completely destroyed, livelihoods taken away, closed Churches, no Sacrifice of the Mass, doesn't earn a peep or a creative, constructive idea from anyone.  Who can figure it out?  No doubt in my mind there is "something goin' on around here."