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A Meditation on Greed: Hildegard & Aquinas vs. Trump, Musk & Co. 2/27/2025 |
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Last night the Republican-led Congress voted to effectively kill Medicaid and food and health care for the poor in order to please billionaires with new tax cuts. |
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Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the crowds flocking to Bernie Sanders in his red-state “Fight Oligarchy” rallies while Democratic leaders flop. Breaking Points. |
Sanders, visiting red states, has drawn 2,000 people in Iowa City and 3,400 in Omaha, to remind Americans that Abraham Lincoln called for a “government of the people, by the people for the people” and “not a government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class and for the billionaire class.” He declared that it is “morally outrageous” when “the richest person on earth—who is a billionaire 384 times over—is ending health care to the poorest among us. Whether dismantling USAID in Africa or in last night’s vote in Congress, the struggle is clear for all to see. |
In an interview with Brian Tyler Cohen, Bernie Sanders sounds the alarm on rising oligarchy and authoritarianism in the U.S. and offers Democrats a way forward. | Why has the Republican Party, once Lincoln’s Party, declared its stand against Medicaid (Trump said he would not touch Medicaid)? Because the billionaire class wants still more tax cuts—up to 4.5 trillion dollars worth—and Republicans imagine dismembering Medicaid will pay for that gift. |
Sanders alluded to the now $2.6 million Musk has put into an extreme right wing judge’s campaign in Wisconsin—with more to come. Now, if you get involved in a Supreme Court race in the state of Wisconsin, where can you not get involved? You can get involved in every governor’s race, every Senate race. That is their intention. And he asks: Why? These oligarchs are not only happy to have huge amounts of money. They want more….I’ll tell you about the most serious addiction problem we have in this country: That is the uncontrollable greed of this billionaire class….They want more wealth. They want more power. And they just cannot stop themselves. |
Thus we are asked to choose between the common good and the “handful of multi-billionaires [who] not only have extraordinary wealth but unprecedented economic, media and political power” bought through exploiting “a corrupt campaign finance system.” (Thank you, SCOTUS, for Citizens United.) |
A lifetime of prophetic action: Bernie Sanders (right), steering committee member in the Committee on Racial Equality, stands by as U. of Chicago president George W. Beadle addresses a CORE meeting on student sit-ins for integrated housing, 1962. Wikimedia Commons |
The answer? Millions of American voters coming together “in a strong grassroots movement” to say “’No’ to oligarchy and authoritarianism and kleptocracy!” And "No!" to tax breaks for the wealthiest on the backs of the working class. Mystics and saints of old have spoken as Bernie
Sanders does. Thomas Aquinas taught that “the greed for gain knows no limit and tends to infinity.” And he offered medicine for this addiction we call avarice or greed which we will consider in tomorrow’s DM. Hildegard of Bingen also spoke out on this addiction to power and “more” that a healthy society needs to hold
in check. She wrote that avarice is “the servant of idols [and] terribly envious….It pillages with harshness and bitterness…it walks and plunders ferociously, sparing nothing when it pillages.” To be continued |
* John Nichols, “Bernie Sanders Is Sending a Piercing Message About Musk and the Oligarchy,”The Nation,
February 26, 2025.
Adapted from Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society, p. 301.
See also: Matthew Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ.
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Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice.
And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth.
Banner Image: Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a protest for a $15/hr minimum wage, while co-sponsoring 2017 legislation for the pay
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Queries for Contemplation |
Do you agree with Sanders and Aquinas and Hildegard that greed is behind much of the political dynamics of our time and that it needs to be kept in check? And that we are feeling the results of Citizens United when government moves from the people to oligarchs and billionaires dominating the media and politics and government? |
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling
author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science. A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics |
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Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election Matthew Fox tells us
that he had always shied away from using the term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to spread control and fear. However, given today’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity. For immediate access to Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color prints from Amazon HERE. To get a print-on-demand paperback copy with black & white images, order from Amazon HERE or IUniverse HERE. To receive a limited-edition, full-color paperback copy, order from MatthewFox.org HERE. Order the audiobook HERE for immediate download. |
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A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew
Fox delivers a profound exploration of the meaning and practice of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the future that promises personal, social, and global healing, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate activity.
“Well worth our
deepest consideration…Puts compassion into its proper focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register |
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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in North American Creation Spirituality and in South
American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just Creator.
“A watershed theological work that offers a common ground for religious seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality
and Practice.
“I am reading Liberating Gifts for the People of the Earth by Matt Fox. He is one that fills my heart and mind for new life in spite of so much that is violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang. |
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The Return of Father Sky: A Cosmic Mystery for Kids of All Ages
The second book in the Father Fox’s Fantastical Fables series, The Return of Father Sky helps boys and girls to celebrate a new
relationship with the masculine by way of Father Sky, whose return excites joy and wonder and possibility that enlarge the soul to welcome others and all creation. Written in a rhyming Dr. Seuss-like style, this full-color, beautifully illustrated book, written by world- renowned theologian Matthew Fox weaves together modern science and classic spirituality in a whimsical, entertaining format to illustrate important truths to readers aged 4 and up. With artwork curated from illustrators around
the world, this book expresses the joy and wonder of all peoples and cultures, planting seeds of respect, cooperation and hope to work together for the healing of our planet. |
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UPCOMING EVENTS See Matthew Fox's full calendar HERE |
As we enter this Lenten season—a time of reflection, reckoning, and renewal—we find ourselves
at a crossroads unlike any other in recent history. Join Matthew Fox and fellow thought-leaders and activists Andrew Harvey, Mirabai Starr, Yvette Flunder, Adam Bucko, and Cameron Trimble in From Darkness to Dawn: Spiritual Courage and Political Action in the Age of MAGA, a 4-part series of transformational conversations, exploring the deep spiritual roots of this political moment and uncovering pathways toward collective action, resilience, and renewal. Tuesdays, March 4, 11,
18, 25, 4-5:30 pm PT. Enroll HERE. |
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Join Matthew Fox as he offers a guest lecture in the Creation Spirituality Communities course “Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: An Exploration of Evil” led by instructor Carolyn Million. Wednesdays, March 12– April 16, 4-6 pm PT. Register HERE. Join Matthew Fox in a free video event hosted by The Shift Network: “The Mysticism of Christ: Experiencing the Sacred Teachings of Jesus for Spiritual Awakening,” Saturday, March 15 at 10am PT. Register for free HERE . Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his book, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the People of the Earth, in an online Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat. Thursday, March 20, 4:00pm-5:30pm PT. Register HERE. MONTHLY: Join Matthew Fox and Skylar Wilson of the Order of the Sacred Earth in a free virtual meeting for connection and networking with other mystic warriors. Last Tuesday of every month, 4:00-5:00pm PT.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88665302478
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Creation Spirituality Conversations |
Matthew was recently interviewed by Sandie Sedgbeer on her program “What is Going OM,” about his book, “Trump and the MAGA Movement as AntiChrist.” Watch or listen HERE. |
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