As a spiritual people ought we not say to public moral ad-men that enough is enough?

 

Regardless of the political rhetoric, we do not have to accept as absolutes the advocacies of those who insist that such and such is precisely what Jesus would do or precisely what Jesus wants or wanted.

The judgmental Letter of the Law, essentially Old Testament thinking that had evolved into the lethal judgmental society of Jesus time (and accurately portrayed in the Mel Gibson film) was not and is not something that Jesus supported or advocated in any way that can be proven by modern biblical literalists of Christian Right Social Conservatives

We read that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and others are of the view that Old Testament Law would and will be quite viable as a foundation for a remodeled American legal system.

Scalia has written that government as an instrument of capital punishment is something ordained of God.

That’s nonsense.

Jesus in Matthew says “Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”

At what moment did he fulfill the Law?

Was it sometime during the final 12 hours – The Passion of the Christ?

I suppose there are those who insist that in his dying, he did so.

However, is it not possible that he might have done so prior to the application of capital punishment ordained at that time by God and Caesar ?

When confronted with the woman caught in adultery and have been justified – even required – by “The Law” to join in the stoning, perhaps Jesus (the Son of God)  brought the Law to fulfillment at that moment.

By introducing the idea of sinlessness and innocence as a requirement of those who would judge and execute did he not take away the murderous right of judgmental legal bigotry?

At that moment did he not repudiate the Law of rigid and inflexible imperative and replace it with a new precedent of governance that requires wisdom, consideration and compassion?

Must the moral high ground be a place of condemnation first, judgment second followed by draconian social penalty intended as punishment?

Does the Sermon on the Mount preach that idea?

Do the parables of The Good Samaritan and Prodigal Son preach that idea?

Can we honestly declare that Jesus was a Conservative Capitalist who favored the rich at the expense of the poor and whose life incidents and teachings inform the radical objectives of the extreme Religious Right?

Honest people realize the implications of their own convictions.

Dishonest people pursue what they want by compromising their convictions at the expense of their own integrity and end up attempting to manipulate others by withholding or distorting truth.

Political parties and candidates can weaken themselves by denying the source of their internal convictions and conscience that inform their highest aspirations.

Are we remaining quiet and non-participating while the political forces around us are turning this land of the free and home of the brave into a land of the deceived and the home of the brave new cowards?

We must take that moral high ground from those who think they own it and that they can dictate some personal higher morality to the rest of us.

That includes those who have, as a blend of political and religious understanding, an expectation that we can abuse and disenfranchise each other,

that we can ignore our poor in the name of profit and greed

that we can attempt dominion of our planet by force and exploitation as much as we want

- simply because in a coming time there will be a supernatural intervention that will clean up the mess we are making.

In that regard, if we as the real  spiritual majority in this country do not charge the moral high ground we will be Left Out, not Left Behind.