RAVENING WOLVES

Dana Prom Smith

 

          Willard Romney and his right-wing Fundamentalist supporters are unaware of the parable of the Good Samaritan where the chief virtue was helping those in distress (Luke 10:29-37).  According to Jesus Christ, acts of mercy to the down-trodden and despised, “the least of these my brethren” are acts of mercy to Him (Matt. 25:40.)

 

           They’ve rejected the moral code of reaching out to those in need, that is to say, mercy and grace, replacing mercy and grace with moral purity.  Their aim is to prove themselves morally superior to those in trouble as though their station in life was the result of their purity instead of their self-aggrandizement, commonly called greed.  The result is that their relationship to the world is one of condemnation and accusation of the so-called 47%.  They are self-righteous and censorious.

 

          Trying to cast the first stone, they try to pass themselves off as Christians all the while subverting and displacing the Gospel with an antagonist message of greed and sanctimoniousness.  Perhaps, it’s best illustrated by Paul Ryan who claims to be a Roman Catholic but espouses the sophomoric atheism and social Darwinism of Ayn Rand’s “get what you can and to hell with everyone else.”  They ought to get their message straight and admit they are not their brother’s keeper but rather are their brother’s antagonist.  They want a government which favors the one percent and everyone else takes the hindmost.  They bring to mind those false prophets in sheep's clothing who are inwardly ravening wolves.