'Sacrificial Offering'

It is believed that Jesus threw a tantrum in a temple.  His tantrum was directed at moneychangers, entrepeneurs, and corporate-types, those that represented capitalism of His day.  I can totally relate to how Jesus felt, although I don't possess the power it would take to bring down the leviathan that is capitalism.  I want so badly to run through the "streets"  of Wall Street overturning the tables of the moneychangers, throwing around the cages of the pigeonsellers and goatkeepers, shaking the shakels of hedge fund and derivatives dealers, while screaming wildly about how wasteful capitalism really is.  When will this madness end?!

I wonder what Jesus expected to accomplish?  Did He just want the capitalism to happen outside of the temple?  Or did He want to completely do away with the greed that He was seeing?  It would take a revolution to overthrow our corporate socialist state known as capitalism.  Capitalism IS socialism for corporations!  And the socialism is funded by the taxpayers.  I really do wish that we could see a return of Jesus to this earth, now, so that I could witness the tantrum that he would throw at the waste of Wall Street and capitalism.  I would love to see another coming of Jesus the Revolutionary!

But my patience is growing thin as I watch dishonest, greedy people make billions at the expense of others.  Capitalism is the modern day equivalent of the den of thieves, and the thieves in the den are protected by laws put into place by politicians to protect them from being held accountable for their dastardly deeds.  Dare I say that the politicians that pass the laws probably profit in some way for the protection they provide to the thieves in the den.

I am totally in support of the free market system that we have, but I am totally opposed to the greed of capitalism.  I am also opposed to huge banks that are allowed to gamble with its depositor's monies and are protected by laws and bailed out with taxpayer's money if failure is the result of the gambling.  That is wrong on so many levels.  If a person (or persons) is doing something positive for a society, then they should be rewarded with profit, for doing good.  But when wall-street-types are contributing absolutely nothing to our society, are causing economic collapse of entire industries for their own profit, then jail time is in order and "the monies stripped from their possession".  At the very least, they should be extradited to a deserted island or atoll somewhere far away from any society with one packet of Skittles and a 12 oz. bottle of water.  Maybe then, they might realize that their greed benefited no one but themselves.  That is my opinion!