The Sins of Sodom.

"This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy,"  Ezekiel 16:49 (NRSV)

No mention of male homosexuality.

Sodom is female here.

And her sins were those of the rich and powerful of our modern world: "pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease" but not aiding the poor and needy.

These increasingly are the sins of the rich corporations and plutocrats who now rule our world.

Jesus said the ways of the world were evil.

And their evil survives today as the injustice and inequality which increasingly pollutes our world.

They exploit the poor.

And they wage war for profit.

They lie to everyone.

And they brainwash the masses.

   

They bathe in luxury while the poor starve.

They persecute minorities.

They incarcerate foreigners.

They push fear and hatred.

And they rule by force.

"Look you serve your own interest.....and you oppress all your workers,"  Isaiah 58:4 (NRSV)

"Is not the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?"  "Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house."  Isaiah 58:6,7 (NRSV)

There are many good people in our world.

But we are ruled by those who are evil.

[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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