{"id":5565,"date":"2011-10-16T16:26:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T23:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2011-10-16T16:26:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T23:26:54","slug":"why-are-they-so-religious-also-camels-needles-and-the-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2011\/10\/16\/why-are-they-so-religious-also-camels-needles-and-the-1\/","title":{"rendered":"why are they so religious? also, camels, needles and the 1%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theislamawareness.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/verse-of-day-bear-witness-to-truth.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/koran-scales.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"koran-scales\" width=\"306\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5582\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/camel-needle.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"camel-needle\" width=\"343\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5567\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many religions offer the promise of a supreme and perfectly fair authority. Such an eternal and just arbiter offers relief for people who live daily under unjust, biased and\/or inhumane authorities. <\/p>\n<p>Consider who is keeping Christianity and\/or Catholicism alive in many parts of the United States. Undocumented migrants live in terror of being seized and punished solely for wanting to work in a productive economy and to raise their children in a safe society. They are like other groups around the world, in the Middle East, in Africa, in Pakistan, who turn to religion to restore their faith in a just order. <\/p>\n<p>Rather than sating their thirst for justice, such a faith must also whet it. Perhaps, they take religion seriously because it takes seriously the matter of justice. Some religious citizens could thus be motivated to participate in a coalition that addresses the glaring injustices in civil society.<\/p>\n<p>For example, those bringing light to the plight of the 99% might consider using posters that remind TV viewers that the Christian God expects more from the 1 percent than largesse. Something about camels being passed through the eye of a needle. Or about <a href=\"http:\/\/crosscut.com\/2011\/10\/13\/econ-finance\/21404\/A-Biblical-parable-for-Occupy-Seattle:-the-issue-is-fairness\/\">being generous<\/a> when you yourself have received the generosity of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many religions offer the promise of a supreme and perfectly fair authority. Such an eternal and just arbiter offers relief for people who live daily under unjust, biased and\/or inhumane authorities. Consider who is keeping Christianity and\/or Catholicism alive in many parts of the United States. Undocumented migrants live in terror of being seized and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}