Another Word for Breach of Trust

PROSTITUTION and what it stands for is so distasteful that it makes one stutter to utter the word. Uniquely, prostitution is male commerce, profiteering on sexual favors. Earth's renewable resources are sexual favors of female graces. We "righteous" ones think of selling sex as the profit venture of pimps who make women available for male sexual gratification. Well, it's a whole lot more than that!

People, did you see Bill Moyer's program on Public TV last night (October 4, 2006) on the astounding political corruption in high places? If we can't recognize what's going on in Washington DC right now as grand thievery and calculated breach of trust, then we need to rediscover religion. Wake up and smell the bacon! Prostitution is corporate exploitation of nature for profit. In the category of prostitute nations, America is Pimp-In-Chief!

What was the Temptation of Jesus? Satan took Jesus to a high place where he could see the profligate wealth of nature's resources. Jesus rejected the Temple and its trade in prestige and nickel-and-dime peddling. In fact he got really mad and chased the peddlers out of the Temple! He rejected opportunistic self-advantaging in high places and joined the company of the impoverished people of the world. When a crowd of righteous men accused a woman of prostitution, he responded to the affront not with a word but with marking in the sand—no doubt reminding them of their prostitution. Their righteousness withered at this simple gesture. They knew he saw through them!

The "religious right" and the government crowd in Washington DC need to have their arrogance withered in the face of blood writing in the sand. The war of choice in Iraq harkens back to the ancient sin of patriarchal lording and the ready male appetite for eating yet again the forbidden fruit of the Middletree.