{"id":655,"date":"2007-06-23T15:37:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T15:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=88"},"modified":"2007-06-23T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T15:37:12","slug":"61607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"6\/16\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to a Bible Study at the Catholic Worker House in Cleveland. \u00a0 It was noted that Jesus was forever talking about bringing more social justice to the world. \u00a0 Someone noted that, often merely because of circumstances, someone grows up in a suburb, goes to college and makes all kinds of money pushing paper somewhere in an air conditioned office. \u00a0 Someone else, often merely because of circumstances, grows up in poverty and later works in a hot field picking tomatoes making, oh, considerably less. \u00a0The privileged often support a system that favors the privileged. \u00a0 That simple. \u00a0 However, it was also noted during the Bible study, that nothing would keep, say, a white collar person from taking significant lifestyle cuts and just as significantly helping, say, a group of migrant worker families. \u00a0 I mean the Bible says if you have two coats (more than adequate: housing, food, access to health care…) and your brother, or sister, needs a coat (because of less than adequte: housing, food, access to health care…), well, you give them a coat for crying out loud. (“average Joe Biblical paraphrase.”) \u00a0 Note<\/strong>:<\/em> Henri Nouwen in the Gennesse Diary<\/em> writes that wealth can be a “blessing or a curse.” Translated: If you use the wealth primarily for yourself, it becomes a tremendous curse in the long run. \u00a0 (Read: eternity.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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