During class on Thursday Professor Silliman brought up a very relevant and important conversation about the Occupy movement. This is a conversation everyone should have at some point because it involves everyone, whether they agree with it or not. As we learned on Thursday the Occupy movement is motivated by likely circumstances as the movements that threatened the Roman Empire. This brings up the questions: What would Jesus do in a time like this? I think its important to note that I am not asking what would the Catholic church or Christian followers do about the current conditions of inequality, but what would Jesus do? One way we could answer this would be to say that he would spread the word of equality between everyone and hopefully gradually people will begin creating communities in light of the values of his lessons. Jesus’ philosophy would be like Ghandi’s philosophy, as Silliman referred to, create nonviolent opposition and let the injustice of the oppressor be exposed through the expressions of compatibility and love in which fuel the oppressed. Of course this movement is much more complicated for the people in America are much too divided and individually focused. Most people don’t see themselves as part of the “working class” but they are not looking at the situation from a bird’s eye view. Sure maybe the situation isn’t yet bad enough for people to be ready for revolution, but it seems as if we are moving in that direction. But would Jesus’ ways work today? Did they even work back then? Some people are theorizing that this is a pivotal point in our human history; do we destroy each other, or do we become a unified whole that works for the best interest of each other? Our enormous population size, our technological capabilities, our compassion or lack there of, are factors today that will decide. The only intervention from god that is realistic is our ability to change our consciousness towards each other and the way we interact. Or would it be better to start from scratch?
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