GOP Gospel: The Rich Fool
Mar. 15th, 2021 01:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinDay 22 of my Lent project. For background, please read this.
A reading from the Gospel according to the GOP:
Luke 12:15-21
And he said to them, "Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions." Then he told them a parable: "The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, 'What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?' Then he said: 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample good laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry."' But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich towards God."
A reading from the Gospel according to the GOP:
And he said to them, "Take care! Be on your guard against those who seek to take anything from you. For God apportions to each what they are due, but the unrighteous will seek to take what is not theirs, either by cunning or taxation." Then he told them a parable: "A rich man's investments paid off handsomely, and he thought to himself, 'I have worked and saved and at last I can enjoy the fruits of my labour. I will have one large house in a leafy suburb, and another one to visit somewhere that is warm in the winter; both shall have large-screen TVs with surround sound, and a pool and a gym. My vehicles will be large and powerful, and never more than two years old, and I will go on exotic holidays in first class. I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have earned your comfort and can now rest from toil; relax, eat, drink, be merry," and we shall be happy for the rest of our days.' But the poor and the lazy, and their politicians, conspired against him, and levied heavy taxes on all his wealth and transactions, taking 20% of this, and 50% of that, and 66% of another, until he could not afford the pleasures he had worked for, and he was left with nothing to show for his life's endeavour."
Luke 12:15-21
And he said to them, "Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions." Then he told them a parable: "The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, 'What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?' Then he said: 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample good laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry."' But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich towards God."
