Amos.

"Hear this, you that trample on the needy,

and bring ruin to the poor of the land,

saying, 'When will the new moon be over 

so that we may sell grain,

and the sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale?

We will make the ephah small and the shekel great,

and practise deceit and false balances,

buying the poor for silver,

and the needy for a pair of sandals,

and selling the sweepings of the wheat.'"

Amos 8:4-6 (NRSV) 

Amos was a prophet of Israel in 800 BCE.

But somehow this sounds familiar.

You who trample on the needy and ruin the poor.

You cook the books and make the dollar great.

You practise deceit and false balances.

He could have been speaking today!

Tax evasion, fake news, spin, corruption.....

All of these things make the dollar god.

Prophesy and denounce them!

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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