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system and that to emphasize one expression is to neglect another yet i m also unconvinced that jesus shared our neat divisions of human experience to put it better i highly doubt that jesus viewed economic justice as a separate entity or even a respectable subcategory of justice he was the prophet of the kingdom of god the realm of god s shalom he pursued this kingdom relentlessly unto his death the very death that marked his ultimate failure to bring about the kingdom which he hoped for i don t see any point at which he appeared ready to compromise for some half assed notion of justice which slighted economic equity in the name of pragmatic concerns in the first part of his book christ schillebeeckx points out that the origins of the word shalom imply peace that is achieved by what equates to socioeconomic reconciliation and fairness for shalom to exist there must first be a sense of wholeness shared by all in a society and a settling of debts these are the preconditions of the peace that is longed for by all this sense of peace is ultimately the foundation of the jewish conception of the kingdom of god as it is expressed in the new testament at the core of jesus identity is the driving hope for a world under god where impoverished conditions are a shadow of history this tangentially demands us to remember that poverty is not ultimately an economic matter poverty is a denial of the humanity of others humanity implying the conditions by which we can identify a life as human we frame it in terms of bank statements but that is simply because it calms the cognitive dissonance we feel at caring more for our own comforts than for the meaningless deaths of millions simply put ignoring the economic implications of shalom destroys the very habitat in which shalom is even a remote possibility and without shalom the kingdom which jesus held as his central concern is a farce making jesus a peddler for a hoax i agree that economics was not central to jesus message as he preached it but to claim that the implications of his message have any meaning apart from economic justice is foolish shalom implicates the whole of human existence to maintain the divisions of our fractured reality and pretend shalom can be approximated in all other realms while we leave a festering dead elephant under a tablecloth is a blasphemous joke so let s bring this back to where we started the miserable failure who is our lord a first point is that it doesn t mean much to say that jesus loved the poor of course he loved them he was one of them he was born into poverty he lived in poverty and died in poverty his death is a poor death a meaningless death his death is like the deaths of millions in our world who die out of sight unheard and unknown in rome a common disturbance among the authorities in jerusalem if we suspend the resurrection then jesus was a failure and so were his followers without god s final vindication and endorsement then there is no other possible interpretation of his life it was too sad to even qualify as a tragedy tragedies generally involve a downfall but jesus barely rose in the first place yet this is the audacious and absurd claim that makes christianity unique it is in meaningless failure for god s cause that god will raise us like our christ jesus died deluded mistaken and alone he died meaninglessly but for god s final word how dare we assume that we can claim to follow him and expect success you choose the evil that stands in our world and attack with the authority of the kingdom of god you attack in the knowledge that you will fail you attack because of justice that is not fractured but remains unified under the shalom of god s existence beyond this expectation apart from a faith that transcends eminent failure the gospel is empty dated and hopefully soon forgotten a simpler way of saying all this could go something like this i have fought for my whole life a long defeat i have fought the long defeat and i have brought other people on to fight the long defeat and i m not going to stop because we keep losing now i actually think sometimes we may win i don t dislike victory people from our background we re used to being on a victory team but actually what we re really trying to do is make common cause with the losers we want to be on the winning team but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers no it s not worth it so you fight the long defeat paul farmer posted by joe 9 6 10 2 comments tuesday may 25 2010 liberation theology for first world people so why haven t i written in a while i had a hard semester which went well i took my mcat which went terrible i m busy but that isn t really it basically i haven t written because i ve been grossly unenthused by my usual topics lately i ve had a couple philosophy books on hand i just shelved them the other day because well because who the hell cares that s been my general take for a while now this stuff i e theology philosophy etc formerly seemed of great importance to me now my interest has officially waned this leaves me with two things to discuss science and fiction neither of which i find to be great blogging material and neither of which i really feel qualified or inclined to speak out as an expert or even an aspiring expert so i haven t written for a while not because of writer s block but mostly due to apathy but yesterday i finished this book it s a biography about a doctor anthropologist named paul farmer i had previously read one of farmer s works but this biography put it in context farmer has spent most of his life working in haiti which continues to rank as the poorest nation in the western hemisphere it holds that honor because our government decided long ago that a nation of former slaves was only good for exploiting thus we have instituted policies ever since that taken this exploitation to extremes never before seen or thought possible ever since haiti has enjoyed the perks of extreme poverty violence ridiculous infant and child mortality rates a median age range that barely escapes the teens epidemics galore starvation lack of education lack of infrastructure and to farmer s dismay lack of basic medical services not that these sorrows aren t found in other places but it s simply a fact that to not find them in haiti would require a combination of blindness deafness and lack of tactile perception this is the gift of american and latin american foreign policy because after all black people should know better than to revolt against french colonialism and torture paul farmer grew up in america in a poor family but went to duke for his bachelor s and received his m d and ph d from harvard he has predominantly worked in haiti since his early 20 s and indeed carried out most of his harvard education by correspondence on the island but enough with the gist here s why i think he s worth writing about farmer is liberation theology incarnated i hear people discuss liberation theology quite commonly but it is always discussed among people in the first world we always lend it our sympathies in theory and in practice know that we are not actually going to do anything to join its cause i hear the majority of churches in america talk about poverty the same way we talk about sin it s something out there and we should do something to stop it we take up a collection and then go home to watch lost or whatever other cultural phenomenon is demanding our attention but throwing money at haiti only serves to shore up the power brokers that are continuing to mutilate that country throwing money at charities generally serves to give jobs to naive white people who would rather be a shoulder to cry on than an arm to work for the cause of the poor we can throw all the money we want at the poor but the fact is that the free market is designed to steal money from those who are easiest to steal it from american banks are fantastic at slight of hand they ve been using it on the third world for centuries and now that most of the third world has been bled dry they ve turned in the last 3 years especially on americans farmer barely self identifies as a christian yet he seems to me the embodiment of ghandi s axiom go to the poor they will tell you who the christians are he simultaneously shows me three things 1 that i am not a christian and that i don t know any 2 that there is hope that we all could be if we repent 3 that a life of service to the poor in other words a life that follows jesus example is indeed beautiful meaningful and worth attempting in other words this biography is the first meaningful theology philosophy book i have read in years farmer stands out as a great example of what it is for a first world person to live out the gospel in the wake of liberation theology posted by joe 25 5 10 4 comments thursday may 13 2010 resignation to drifting we ve been at sea for some time with our eyes to the horizon we ve longed for solid ground we ve swam towards shores we thought we saw but none were ever found adrift the question arises if we haven t yet drown then why do we long for shadows which resound drifting is our destiny i guess it s common to human nature to hope for a final arrival by this i mean to say that we all have some vague ideas about a good that we hope for and we hope on some level that one day we ll arrive i ve wished for years that i could stumble on a faith community that would meet my vague ideas of what a faith community should be i ve ceased to be surprised that this never happens i realize that communities are made of individuals and individuals are flawed people aren t perfect so how can i expect churches to be these are things that i am reminded of every time i express my grievances to friends about the way churches are run in america churches are places where we must extend grace to people and their flaws yet so often this purported graciousness masks an expectation of complacency perhaps complicity with the worst evils to which our society clings a few examples implicit racism ethnocentrism in dallas churches come in a wide variety of flavors white black asian yuppie hipster hell there s a wide variety of cowboy churches to choose between the inter racial churches i ve seen all manage this by expecting all races to adhere to certain ethnic cultural practices in missions we referred to this as contextualizing but more and more i just see it as self satisfied laziness failure of socioeconomic reconciliation perhaps this is evidence of me being a socialist or perhaps i just find it to be the most blatant example of how jesus followers have no intention of following jesus teaching i find that churches bear much of the guilt we would rather pay for pews and stage lights than justice and righteousness were the salaries of ministry staffs across our nation diverted to pay for food and medicine i imagine poverty could be wiped out in the western hemisphere along with a good portion of the east it seems that every church i attend views justice for the poor as an accessory there s a bureaucracy that must be maintained so that secondary functions like justice can be kept up i find this to be a prioritization of values that is not compatible with jesus monologue sit in a pew face forward and swallow what your told let someone declare their own ideology to be the word of the lord and you follow with thanks be to god we live in a world of monologue tv radio editorials pundits movies commercials where is the voice of the congregation heard where is the crowd given a chance to express doubts its vague feelings or hopes if churches cant respond to these things or allow them space to be voiced then what precisely is its purpose i m not talking small groups or wo men s bible study i mean genuine dialogue that shapes the face of the community that determines its course if there s anything good i see in the emergent church movement it s that at least they have this understood the last thing our society needs is another place to have ministerial opinions and ideological stances projected at them these are three aspects endemic among churches that i ve decided i cannot tolerate and that i don t think anyone else should either thus i ve basically given up on finding a church i now hope merely that some day by striving to become the change i hope to see in the world i ll find a community around me posted by joe 13 5 10 1 comments saturday february 13 2010 the university of texas at dallas land of enchantment if you know anyone considering an education at utd look them in the eye and with a british accent say on second thought don t go to utd tis a silly place why a few photos may suffice first behold the utd geyser or hot spring we re not sure what it is yet but for close to a year we have watched this utility box go from a steaming block of cement to what is now a bubbling frothing mess it has resulted in an alluvial flood plain that has shut down a significant chunk of sidewalk get ready this is a theme we shall return to and required the instillation of wooden bridges to traverse the muddy mess secondly ladies and gentlemen you might be mistaken into thinking that you are looking at a new project don t be they claim this is to be a new campus mall on par with the national mall in d c yet after a year and a half of pardoning their progress it appears that the trustees of my school are really just fascinated by dirt it appears to be an ideological fixation to clear their campus beautiful dirt of all that cursed greenery as far as the eye can see we are a science school after all so what could be more scientific than recreating the moon here on the earth progressive no as previously stated moonism here at utd has the annoying side effect of consuming all sidewalks therefore to transport oneself from one building to an adjacent one requires a 15 km journey for every 5 meters that separate the buildings thus since the student center is 50 meters from the library to proceed from one to the other requires no less that 150 km of hiking otherwise known as 93 miles the amazing thing about such statistics is that utd is confined to 3 5 square km of land how you might be wondering is it possible to force 150 km treks across a campus that barely spans 3 5 km yeah i get that question a lot and i always respond the same way what else do you expect all these nobel laureates to do with their time go science lastly the bathrooms to make the kids with gender issues feel more comfortable utd has installed gender ambiguous toilets is it a urinal or a pot no one knows therefore whatever confusion you may be feeling science loves you anyway woosh honorable mention the new native forest at campus entrance have a 20 ft drainage ditch messing with your campus aesthetic just replace ugly with ugly but environmentally sound the sidewalks that are lined by construction worker port a potties if your day isn t crappy enough just try to breath while walking down the only functioning sidewalk on campus the m...