{"id":50484,"date":"2014-02-07T00:28:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T07:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=50484"},"modified":"2014-12-29T16:56:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T23:56:57","slug":"james-of-jerusalem-class-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/02\/james-of-jerusalem-class-warrior.html","title":{"rendered":"James of Jerusalem, Class Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure * for the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud<\/a>, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. (James 5:1-5)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The standard ways of ignoring James are as follows:<\/p>\n

1. That link is to a ritually impure source, so we needn\u2019t bother with the fact that the data it relates is accurate.<\/p>\n

2. Who even knows *what* James means by this anyway? \u201cRich\u201d is such a *vague* word.<\/p>\n

3. Something something agrarian economy of James\u2019 day vs. super-complicated handwaving about modern economics today. Voila. Nobody got cheated out of their wages.<\/p>\n

4. Something something development of doctrine (and ignore that simpleton Francis because the real Magisterial teaching comes from my favorite libertarian theorist).<\/p>\n

5. Abortion and homosexuality! So shut up!<\/p>\n

6. Any criticism of even the grossest economic equality is Nazism and no I am *not* a self-absorbed creep cocooned from all reality by my obscene wealth<\/a>. Perhaps it\u2019s time we revisited Luther\u2019s proposal to take James out of the Bible. I think I\u2019ll contact one of my publishing assets and see about that.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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