So Scott Peterson will be executed for the murder of his wife and unborn child.
Another family (Scott’s) will be victims of an another untimely death- this time done in your and my name. Just because he is a murderer doesn’t mean he is not a son, brother, friend and human. Another mother will have to do the unthinkable and bury her own child.
Woohoo, the world’s a better place now isn’t it? Surely our streets will be safer because Scott Peterson will no longer be around. And our lives more full and rich.
Why is it, that in a country full of purported fundamentalist Christians, nobody seems to want to be like Jesus and to turn the other cheek?
Because Christian morality isn’t Christian and can never be so. Religions are systems that reflect the society in which they exist in not vise-versa. There’s no going back to the social system of Roman occupied Palestine. Christianity is a religion based in capitalism and stinks of capitalism’s morals, not those of Jesus.
In capitalism there always needs to be a scapegoat. There are no problems with the system. No problems if workers keep watching the smoke and mirrors of Scott Peterson trials, TV, movie star scandals, online games, etc.
We all know it’s nothing but a waste of our time, but what else is there to do?
A wasted life! What a tragedy. And workers’ lives- our lives- are meant to be wasted. We are expendable, and it doesn’t matter how we are spent. It can be too much consuming, overwork or war.
OR to a poison syringe on a sacrificial alter in a California Penitentiary.
So fellow worker, look behind the smoke and mirrors and come beyond the stench of capitalist morality. Socialism means a world where all of us have worth. Even in fighting for Socialism you find worth, dignity and skills you never thought you had.
A better world is possible if you want it.
Think about it.
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