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Who Are We Without Our Stuff?

Luke 14:25-33

Proper 18 (23) - Year C

September 05, 2010

The Rev. Laura Mariko Cheifetz (PCUSA)

Who are we without our stuff? For those of us who are U.S. residents, we are citizens of consumption, mavens of materiality. We are American consumers more often than we are American voters. Americans are brand-identified. Our patterns of consumption define us, and project who we are. Some of us like to project success, and others of us like to project social responsibility with what we have purchased. We are PCs or Macs; Blackberries, Palms or iPhones; Nike or New Balance; fair trade or free trade. We are Toyota, Volkswagen or Ford car owners; we are supporting breast cancer research as we buy pink or AIDS research as we buy red. We know how cool we are based on whether we choose Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Explorer to surf the web. We stick to one preferred airline, with Southwest customers proud to feel the "luv" or fly JetBlue with its DirectTV at every seat and fancy T5 at JFK.

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Who would Jesus torture?

The Rev. Dr. Peter L. Samuelson (ELCA)

The opening line of the CNN article reporting on the survey of attitudes about torture by the Pew Forum on Religion and the Public Life draws this conclusion:  the more a person goes to church, the more a person believes torture of suspected terrorist to get important information is justified. (http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/30/religion.torture/index.html#cnnSTCText)
That headline might lead to this question: What is it about church going that causes a person to believe in torture?

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