Jesus' Economics (Jesusnomics)
Japan's TV stations have been reporting on the horrible crackdown on a large Islamic seminary in Pakistan as well as mega-churches in the U.S.; but I like to concentrate on money, for your sake.
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How much money do you think you need to live a decent life in your society and community?
How much security expenses nowadays do you think you need in such a decent life?
So, your Government can tell children how much they need when they grow up to live a decent life.
So, your Government should also tell children how much they do not need when they grow up to live a decent life.
And, your Government has to tell that income of any citizen from his or her profession should be adjusted to have him or her and his/her neighbors live a decent life each.
The President should tell the people that they do need neither a million dollar, 10,000 dollar, nor 1,000 dollar per day to live a decent life.
The President should tell the people that if they earn a million dollar, 10,000 dollar, or 1,000 dollar per day, they are great and can be regarded as heroes or heroines in a sense, but they have to simply take the honor and pride but give up the excessive amount of money to Government tax offices.
I really wish that there would be a new movement in the U.S. toward decent lives with very appropriate personal financial assets of the people, though, with astronomical sums of public funds and governmental budgets to be provided for people in poor countries and especially poor Muslims.
In that case, all the rich countries, including Japan and China, must surely follow suit.
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Jesus Christ talked about taxes and wages. He said to pay them unconditionally, fully, equally, and timely.
This is on a "vertical" movement of money: from people to a government, or from an employer to workers. It must be unconditionally, fully, equally, and timely handled; and money should flow accordingly unconditionally, fully, equally, and timely, vertically.
However, there is another movement of money: a "horizontal" movement.
You should lend money to your poor neighbors, but you should not demand pay back. This is His teaching which is related to the horizontal movement of money. No interest and all the more no payback should be demanded.
This flow of money in a horizontal direction or on a plane symbolizes and embodies concrete love to neighbors, which really does away with the devilish character of money.
Indeed, Jesus' Economics or "Jesusnomics" is greater than Nobel-Prized (or "N"-Prized) economics.
(I would rather say, "Do not compete with Angels," even in market, since God Speed is on their side.)
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Once, a black tulip became a symbol of speculations in Holland. A price of a black tulip soared up in a crazy market when Holland was so rich while occupying trade in East Asia. But, it burst like a bubble eventually.
Jesus Christ said to look at wildflowers and have a trust in God.
Truly the trust in God can lead to the thinking about a decent life and holy economics, which will advance us close to the Kingdom of God, truly, intangible.
O, God, when will the day come on which the word "money" will disappear from every dictionary on the earth?
Truly God is great, and God or Allah is the only god for us!!
(At least, your thought on a holy mission must be stronger than your thought on money. Otherwise, you may happen to be a billionaire. Can't you hear a sigh from both men and Angels?)
"WE WILL SHARE THE SAME LOAF"