Who do you believe ? part 1
Who do you believe? part 1
Wouldn’t it be great if all
that we read or heard was written honestly, and declared the agenda of the
person writing it?
There is a great line going around
now that says the best-informed people in the USA are those that do not buy
newspapers or watch TV! These people
listen, watch, reflect and then make up their own minds.
The BBC is universally known
for its’ balanced reporting. Yes, it
does get attacked by the Right wing for being too socially biased, and Yes, it
does get attacked by the Left wing for being too elitist. It somehow must be there or there abouts.
Therefore, when you hear or
read a report from the BBC the journalist and source is invariably named. And in those occasional times when they are
reporting on rumour/briefings the BBC makes it absolutely clear that the source
is un-named, but how I wish they would not give in to these briefings and
solely report what has actually been announced.
By doing such un-named briefings they are only encouraging the manipulation
of the media.
The UK media is dominated by
3 mega-wealthy newspaper proprietors.
Namely, Sir Rupert Murdoch, Brothers Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay,
and Viscount Jonathon Hamsworth. Total
combined worth £20bn.
The Sun, Times, Daily
Telegraph and Daily Mail are controlled by 4 billionaires who all use offshore
tax evading investments (but seemingly legal if not ethical). Who are they likely to favour? The offshore and trust fund tax evading fellow
billionaires, or the refugees, the poor, and the hungry. I will let you judge.
Whether you are a believer
or not we still hold many of the values of Jesus Christ in our society about
2,000 years after his death. Thou shall
not steal, murder etc. The 2 greatest
commands of Jesus were to love GOD (but by free-will) and to love your
neighbour as though the individual was yourself. And Jesus went onto to confirm that your
neighbour wasn’t just your next-door neighbour but everyone on this
planet.
Jesus tells the parables of
the Good Samaritan and The Rich Fool.
In the Good Samaritan
parable, we see that the good neighbour for the beaten and robbed man was not
the priest or the Levite Jew, but a stranger from another land of Samaria.
In the Rich Fool parable, we
see a wealthy farmer who collects in an excellent crop which exceeds his storage
capacity. So, the wealthy farmer tears
down his existing barns, and builds new larger barns. I can now take life easy, eat, drink and be
merry. On the completion night of the
barns, GOD takes the man’s life, and says ‘YOU FOOL’. This is what it is like for the wealthy that
store up treasures on Earth and are not rich to GOD and generous to the poor.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we
lived in a world where the rich (who became rich by the efforts of working
people and the Earth’s resources) took their social responsibility seriously,
rather than sucking off more billions into their non-tax paying off-shore
investments. Are these billionaires more
likely to be Good Samaritans or Rich Fools?
Love and Peace
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