Diane over at Corssroads has a very interesting but untitled article about the ratio of financial compensation between CEO and employees.

Diane is asking why are the Christians silent about this?

It’s very simple why the Christians remain silent:

(1): The political party that supports these actions is the same political party the Christians preach from the pulpits on Sunday morning to be the saviors that will end abortion, provide school vouchers, etc. Therefore, to not look like a hyprocrite, the issue of the CEO golden parachutes are denied in the church while the other issues of abortion, euthanasia, school vouchers, etc. are addressed with God’s Official Opinion signed ‘Thus saith the Lord’.

(2): Who sits on the deacon and elder boards of many of the larger churches in America, the same CEO’s chairmen of the boards, etc. that are on the boards of many companies or are the CEO’s of their own companies. The Worldcom guy who was recently convicted taught Sunday School every week.

If the church really addressed the problem, you would see this happen:

(a): The wealthy CEO’s within the church would have a hostle takeover to oust the pastor and leadership board and install a ‘puppet pastor’ who will not teach anything contrary to what the wealthy and affluent believe.

(b): The wealthy CEO’s would hold their money hostage from the offering plate until the addressing of the problem stopped.

(c): The wealthy (if unable to do “a” and ‘b’) would leave and make the church down the street large, wealthy, famous, and ‘hip’ to go to on Sunday mornings.

You see, no matter how much the Theo-political leaders within Christianity claim they control the election of public officials via their support of the Republican party, they in reality do not control the underlying power that is running the party. They are not in control of the top 5% of the wealthy in this country whose interests are making more money, oil, and big business. You see, in the theo-political realm, the issues addressed are ’selective’ because of the fact mentioned in statement one above. If we dare speak out on other issues, we risk further alienation from the political party that the theo-political leaders have deemed as the nation’s savior from abortion, the atheists, secular humanists, offensive Super Bowl halftime shows, and Michael Schiavo.

The core leaders within the Republican party really do not see the Religious Right as an asset. They see the Religious Right as a pain in their rear ends that they have to sometimes pander to in order to keep them quiet. The numbers of the Religious Right are large enough to swing elections, but not large enough to be a seperate political party of influence and affluence in Washington, D.C or to swing widespread change to the moral fiber of this nation via political means. If their influence was so great as the theo-political leaders claim, why hasn’t abortion been overturned yet? Is it because of ‘the great battle in the heavenlies’ or is it because the majority of wealthy doctors and healthcare industries who perform abortions probably are registered Republicans? Why is it that to get a religious right focused issue passed or defeated, the threats of leaving the Republican party and supporting the opposing candidate are used as a last resort?

Until a change in the heart occurs, we will never see this addressed.