The parable for the capitalist world? richfool.txt
Peter Kalve rightly asks the question as to why fewer people have responded to this parable. Is it because this parable directly opposes the lifestyle of so many of us, where we are told by the economic system, advertising - and our own selfishness - that getting is good, and the more we get the better we shall be? So we gather around ourselves a mound of \'things\' and build ever bigger barns.
We even make this a moral issue, so that wealth=good, respectable, and poverty=bad, despicable.
Jesus directly confronts this comfortable greedy attitude: \'You fool (Gk.= \'ignorant\'): this very night your life is being demanded of you\'.
This speaks to those of us who are retired (like me) and are tempted by a decent pension to say \'relax, eat, drink, be merry\'....but \'are not rich towards God\'.
This parable challenges not only individuals but our whole unsustainable way of being where constant growth is the only thing which keeps our economic system going. It is frightening in its implications.
Can we obey the Father\'s command, \'This is my beloved Son: listen to him\'?
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