What Would Jesus Do?
Dear Minutemen;
What would Jesus do?
Would he hang around with the poor, the lepers, the whores, and the dregs of society, becoming a parasite himself? Or would he get to work?
Going through the Houston airport the other day, I heard a passenger exclaim, "Where are they going to get the labor necessary to rebuild the South?" Well, judging from the number of young men who prefer to rape and pillage in New Orleans, not from there. But then again, the roving eye of the camera is not impartial: they want to find controversy, they need to find something for the 10 second vision-bite to lead the news.
I think we are going to find that the real tragedy is in Missisppi. New Orleans is more dramatic looking, but after all, it's only a flood in an otherwise intact city. Louisiana outside of the city and especially southern Mississippi and Alabama were devastated, destroyed, flattened by the storm, and nobody is looking there. They didn't have anything to begin with, and now they have even less. There is nothing dramatic about pictures of nothing, is there?
Property is more valuable to the person who doesn't have much to begin with than to the man with everything. After all, a man with a healthy bankroll and insurance can always get his house back. A man who only had a house has to go scrounge used wood.
What would Jesus do? He used to do my lawn, and every 20 years or so, he rebuilds my roof. Jesus, or Chuy as we call him around here, loves to work for money. Dear Minutemen, do us all a favor and use your free time and evidently abundant resources to do something constructive: start picking up workers (undocumented and otherwise) and haul them all to Mississippi. That's what Jesus would do, if he had a Lincoln Navigator.
Love,
Eric
What would Jesus do?
Would he hang around with the poor, the lepers, the whores, and the dregs of society, becoming a parasite himself? Or would he get to work?
Going through the Houston airport the other day, I heard a passenger exclaim, "Where are they going to get the labor necessary to rebuild the South?" Well, judging from the number of young men who prefer to rape and pillage in New Orleans, not from there. But then again, the roving eye of the camera is not impartial: they want to find controversy, they need to find something for the 10 second vision-bite to lead the news.
I think we are going to find that the real tragedy is in Missisppi. New Orleans is more dramatic looking, but after all, it's only a flood in an otherwise intact city. Louisiana outside of the city and especially southern Mississippi and Alabama were devastated, destroyed, flattened by the storm, and nobody is looking there. They didn't have anything to begin with, and now they have even less. There is nothing dramatic about pictures of nothing, is there?
Property is more valuable to the person who doesn't have much to begin with than to the man with everything. After all, a man with a healthy bankroll and insurance can always get his house back. A man who only had a house has to go scrounge used wood.
What would Jesus do? He used to do my lawn, and every 20 years or so, he rebuilds my roof. Jesus, or Chuy as we call him around here, loves to work for money. Dear Minutemen, do us all a favor and use your free time and evidently abundant resources to do something constructive: start picking up workers (undocumented and otherwise) and haul them all to Mississippi. That's what Jesus would do, if he had a Lincoln Navigator.
Love,
Eric
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