Link (here) to read the full opinion piece by Alexander Mikulich is a research fellow at the Jesuit Social Research Institute
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican (here)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was fighting against racial segregation and for equal rights for African- Americans not unions (here)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican (here)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was fighting against racial segregation and for equal rights for African- Americans not unions (here)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was not fighting for unions the right to unionize the Memphis garbage collectors per se, but was a part of his Poor People's Campaign (here) , (here) and (here)
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We keep trying to treat the symptom and not the disease.
Wealth corrupts governments, corporations, and society. Jesuits can change education, but they instead choose to incorporate the values of the wealthy. Jesuits can redefine business practice, and change government as a result, but they choose to define themselves in a historical Church context, rather than a context of creating God's values here in this existence.
As for inequality, it is like slavery. If, as a society, we choose that as a value, then God will consider that to reflect our true values, and allow us to create that society. He will create appropriate lessons, depending on how we execute that free will.
Right now, we have a society in the US that, collectively, does not object to inequality. Our obligation is to serve the wealthy, since that is the societal structure that we have created.
God's values are not our values.
And in the interest of providing a reference to current "inequality": In this month's Vanity Fair there is an article by Economics Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz called "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%".
http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105
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