A Message to the Bible Belt

A message to the Bible Belt:

Compassion is always, always, always risky.

If you fear risk, you have no compassion.

A theorem: 

Generally, how much a state's citizens 

claim to follow Jesus 

is directly proportional to how much 

that state refuses Jesus' basic teachings. 

Anybody who cracks a Bible 

may judge whether or not this observation is true.

Yes, it's understandably risky 

to help a person 

on the side of a terrorist-infested road.

And it's often only a person 

of another, despised religion (Samaritan) 

who's willing to help,

which some homeless radical 

(you may have heard of him) 

very purposefully pointed out 

to those of his own Bible religion 

(Luke 10:25-32).

http://www.newsweek.com/where-every-state-stands-accepting-or-refusing-syrian-refugees-395050

To Answer My Accusers: You're Right, I Have Not Earned Anything

To answer my accusers: you're right, I have not earned anything.

I did not earned any clothes I wear, any food I eat, all gleaned from massive heaps thrown away.

I did not earn the sunlight or the communal air giving us all energy and life.

I did not earn my mother's love.
Neither can I ever pay her back.


Now, I ask you: have you earned anything?

Have you earned anything you purchased at Walmart?

Did America's wealthiest family, the Walton family, earn its $149 billion "net worth"? (Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/profile/walton-1/)