Free Market or Jesus Market?

Wednesday January 27th, 1 Corinthians 12: God put our bodies together in such a way that even the parts that seem the least important are valuable. 25 He did this to make all parts of the body work together smoothly, with each part caring about the others. 26 If one part of our body hurts, we hurt all over. If one part of our body is honored, the whole body will be happy. A society is to be judged by how we treat the least among us. We have the largest rate of incarceration in the world. More than 5.6 million Americans are in prison or have served time there, according to a report by the Justice Department. That's 1 in 37 adults living in the United States, the highest incarceration level in the world. That should tell us that we are doing something wrong. The distribution of wealth in this country has shifted from a slope to an “L” shape. No longer do 30% own 70% of the wealth, but 5% own almost 90% of the wealth and the top 1/10th of 1% owns the vast majority of that; calls the shots, makes the laws by paying the lobbyists who write them for the legislators who are too busy raising money, from this same group, to get reelected. By not caring for the least, lost and lonely, we are destroying ourselves from the inside out. A very few are smiling about it all the way to the bank. (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12699486/paul_krugman_on_the_great_wealth_transfer/print)