The zealots of Jesus' time thought that the answer to Roman occupation, immorality, greed, and tyranny was war. Jesus taught that true change, however, must come from within each of us. There are many parallels between our Nation today and the Roman Empire of his time such as: the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, decaying morality, invasion of foreign lands for plunder, great injustice, genocide, and the complacency of the citizenry.
And we all know what happened to the Roman Empire, they were not conquered but rather they self-destructed. They became financially and morally bankrupt. Sound familiar? You don't have to look very far or even beyond your own neighborhood today to witness the declining morality of our nation. Adultery, child abuse, divorce, armed robbery, car jacking, murder, injustice in our courts, insider trading, degeneration of government officials at every level, and on and on to see that we as a Nation are on a similar path.
It is easy to target the Bush Administration for all of it’s corruption and it is in fact our moral obligation to bring an end to their immoral and hedonistic foreign policy which has wrought genocide upon the Middle East and increased our enemies by the millions. The remaining problems of our nation, however, won’t be so easy to target and I suspect that they are just beginning.