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You would have $10 million if America’s wealth were evenly shared.
A publicized economic report showed Americans how wealthy they would be if the nation‘s wealth were evenly shared. Each man, woman and child would have $10 million dollars.
But, the nation’s wealth is not evenly shared and a tiny handful of families have all the wealth. You have only enough to get by month to month. And, your tiny share is shrinking as the share of the wealthy is expanding.
How did this economic situation develop? How do we change it? Will God make a way for us to change it?
How did our modern economy develop?
Our modern economy has not developed at all. It is a continuation of the basic economy that has been part of the world from the very beginning. The basic way that the ancient economy worked was for brutal people to simply steal things from others. In that way the worst people rose in society to be the wealthiest and to have the most power.
I call this the predator economy because this is the way that animals behave in the wild. An alpha male steals from lesser males. And dominant females keep lesser females in pecking orders. This behavior basically describes our modern economic system. Inside tall office buildings that are made of glass and steel are people that are no better than predatory beasts. And, almost every human since Adam and Eve has made a conscious decision to be a predator in the way that beasts are predators.
It is no surprise then that a handful of alpha males have stolen all the wealth of the nation. It is no wonder that dominant females keep other females and their offspring in regimented class systems.
Cain murdered Able because of the economic/social system
Eve started a predatory economic and class system when she decided to eat stolen fruit. Eve observed the fruit of her decision first-hand. She saw that her first son, Cain, killed his younger brother Abel because of class envy and jealousy over wealth.
We observe Eve's economic system in the carefully chosen words of Genesis 4:7-8. I will paraphrase the words in order to make the meaning more obvious.
God talked to Cain about his anger and sense of futility regarding Abel. God said, If you think about the Passover sacrifice you will understand why it has to be a lamb. It cannot be made with vegetables from your farm no matter how excellent they are. If you offer a lamb next time I will certainly accept it. If you do not change your way of thinking, you will get angrier. And there is no telling what you will do. So, change your thinking so that Abel will eventually submit to your authority and you will be the one that dominates.
Please note that the underlying issues are power and domination. And this certainly relates to wealth. It appears that Abel had become the alpha male for reasons we have to speculate about. This was not the way it was supposed to be because the firstborn was to dominate the second-born. So Cain was very humiliated by Abel‘s dominance.
There is another dimension to the class struggle between Cain and Abel. The firstborn was to be the wealthiest and the second born was to have spiritual gifts. In this way, we see that second-born Abel was the religious leader. It appears that Abel was indeed the spiritual leader because he understood that the Passover sacrifice was to be about the Lamb of God. On Passover Cain had offered his very best farm produce. But it could not possibly be accepted because it was not a lamb. Cain’s choice of a sacrifice reveals a lack of spiritual comprehension. Can you just feel how crushed Cain was when his very best farm produce was rejected? Imagine your adorable child making a superhuman effort to make a birthday present for you over weeks of time. Your loving child would look forward in anticipation to your happy response. What if you opened your child’s gift and responded by saying that it was not right? Now, imagine the emotional stress that God was in at having to tell Cain that his excellent vegetables were NOT acceptable.
Cain rose up against Abel. This choice of words indicates that Abel had been the brother to develop into the dominant one. Abel was up and Cain was down. Abel was dominant in both wealth and religious understanding. Cain must have been extremely depressed due to his feelings of inferiority and inadequacy.
This perspective illuminates the role of religion in the predatory economic system that Eve chose. By the way, Eve was the second born after Adam and she was the mother of world religion. Since the time of Eve, predatory men have used religion as a means to steal wealth from others. This is a very contemporary issue as Congressmen attempt to protect citizens from religious leaders that steal money through tithes in order to live in shameful wealth.
Personally, I do not believe that Abel was free of blame for his own death. I have reservations because God was very sympathetic toward Cain. God did not enforce the death penalty that was required by law. Instead, Cain got off as if he committed justifiable homicide. In other words, there was more to the story and Abel was not as innocent as it seems on the surface. Abel might have behaved as many religious leaders do today. Abel might have been a predator despite his righteous appearance.
The story of Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel is actually very relevant to our time. It describes our modern economic and religious system in many ways. For one thing, the basic economic system has been unchanged since their time. It has always been predatory and the immoral have always stolen the wealth of the moral.
The development of our economic system
Early societies were concerned about wild beasts like lions. They were also concerned about rival tribes of people. There was a simple economic policy in those times. If you wanted something, you stole it. If somebody tried to stop you, then you killed him or her.
(Amazingly, this same economic system is used today in much of the world. Corporate executives in high rise office buildings do indeed murder individuals and groups of people in order to steal their belongings. When assassins cannot be used successfully, lawyers and politicians are used. Lobbyists, Presidents and Congressmen are purchased in order to facilitate the theft of belongings from people that resist. There was a lot of stealing from third world countries when corporations wanted oil and other natural resources. There was a lot of murdering when citizens protested.)
Early societies promoted kings in order to have professional soldiers to protect citizens from lions and marauders. This development escalated into kingdoms and empires.
The down side to kings was that they turned on the people they were supposed to protect. Kings used brute force to steal everything of value and to enslave people into communes that provided free labor. Communism was an ancient form of government that was used by tyrants. Kings became the lions and marauders of their own people. Citizens were sequestered like penned animals and kings did as they pleased with them.
Like Cain, rulers realized the value of religious authority. Kings became defenders of the faith and even heads of religions. This allowed them to be both kings and priests in the way Cain wanted to be. Religion served as a means to have citizens submit to the theft of their belongings in the name of God. To this very day, religious leaders steal the wealth of believers in the name of God. Religious leaders live in luxury while tithers struggle to pay bills and feed children.
-Edward D. McKinney
CONTINUED AS God's fair & inclusive economic system for all nations!
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