Sunday, July 15, 2012

Caesar can still be my lord

Two things. First, I think it is interesting that we say Christ is lord. Lord has no meaning for us anymore as we are no longer in a feudal system. Thus, in America we should change it to Christ is my president. I think that it is after this happens that we as a Christian community can create a holistic Christian worldview that does not leave much room for politics because we will monopolize all of our time with what it means to follow Christ as commander and chief first. Which leads to numero dos. When we say render unto Caesar what is his, for the most part it is in appropriation to taxes and our sense of nationalist patriotism for our country as Christians in support of what is conceived as the "great Christian nation that is the hands and feet of God in the world." However, Dorothy Day said something to the effect of let Caesar have all his money because he created it. Who cares. What God created was humanity and that is what we should be good stewards of, not hiding. In this light, the paradigm of Christ's parable of the talents is re-imagined as we become proactive stewards of humanity and the right to life being fundamentally the possession of God as we become active advocates for life in all avenues of existence.

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