The False Dichotomy Pitting Rich against Poor

Most sociological and political-science textbooks teach reality as a dichotomy between a master class and a slave class.  Karl Marx portrayed this (false) dichotomy as a conflict between bourgeoisie class, those who own the means of production, and a proletariat class, those who are subject to having to work under the authority of the bourgeoisie.  In actuality, there has always been three classes of people:  1)  Those within an empowered class made up of royalty, 2) those within a wealthy class made up of aristocrats and nobility, and 3) a poor class of commoners.  While the empowered royalty classes do not need any money to purchase products, the wealthy rich aristocrats and nobility have to work at least to the extent that they must invest at a risk.  Those in the commoner class need to work in order to survive.  

Even more insightful, in the past tyrannies, while there was indeed a conflict happening between a ruling master class and an obedient slave class, both of these classes worked together in unison to persecute and expel third class of outcastes.  This is the subtle point that most don't understand.  There wasn't two classes making up society, but three.

As I've mentioned before, from what Jesus seemed to have learned as a boy, He referred to Himself as the Son of man, or as the very least among the most worthless.  Allow me to elaborate.  As the fearful masses would praise a Son of God as greater than his father, the same people would also rate an unclassified Son of man as the very least born from the nameless and faceless.  So, in my interpretation, the term "Son of man" means "the very least of the worthless born out from those who are nameless and faceless."

As the best understanding of reality entails a lot more complex work, we just can't help being deceived of course by an overall paradigm made up of false dichotomies.  These conflicts are black versus white, male against female, the artists against the scientists, rationality versus the irrational, rich against poor, and so on.

Indeed, although this is the real classification under which the cruel world operates, we should take responsibility.  For, once again, it is us who serve the drunkards their drinks, suffer willingly under them as a consequence, and complain about it as a consequence.  Indeed, it wasn't the fifth prefect Pontius Pilate or King Herod who the Almighty confronted regarding persecution of His children, but Saul of Tarsus.        

Going by the sequence of events established in the book of Acts, while on his way to Damascus, Saul was confronted by the newly baptized eunuch, the one the deacon Philip had met up with while preaching the gospel.  To Saul, the eunuch and Christ, now emasculated, were one and the same.  Indeed, Saul was the horseman who enslaved Simon to help Christ carry his cross.  Simon, aware of the immense power Saul welded to have him arrested and also crucified, dare not refuse.  Indeed, Saul was surely there during Christ's crucifixion as he would have already been dispatched to spy upon any Christians as illegal followers of a false prophet.

In other words, the Almighty placed blame on Saul and not on Pontius Pilate and King Herod.  (In acts, Christ as the Holy Spirit asked Saul why he was persecuting Him).  After all, it was Saul and others of his similar stature who gave power to all the evil emperors of the Roman Empire.  To provide an example, later on, concerning John Locke, it wasn't an actual king who proclaimed to possess absolute power.  Instead, such a claim was made by one of the subjects under him named Robert Filmer.  Indeed, in order to advance his own status within the royal kingdom, Robert Filmer wrote a patriarcha arguing on that the king possessed the sovereign authority (power) of God Almighty.  In response, John Locke didn't confront the king directly in the writing of his two treatises; but, he confronted the patriarcha written by Robert Filmer.

In order to advance themselves even further today, a new class of aristocrat is giving power to a new ruling emperor over this earth.  Such an authority was abolished by Christ and, so, is a false ruler and the anti-christ.

Fd. Uncle Emanuel Watkins