reimagining Christianity 101, part 2

economics:


did you know by 2016 the top 1% (approx
1645 billionaires, et al), will control 50% of the world's wealth? There's only 600 billion u.s. Dollars in circulation but 18 trillion in debt to the federal reserve.


Niger in Africa is one of the world's poorest countries. To what extent is this due to greedy, exploiting capitalists and to what extent is it just Niger's own fault?


http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21612239-runaway-birth-rates-are-disaster-population-explosion


how could your newly minted Jesus (e.g., Seth McFarlane) save Africa? The birthrate in Africa is 7.6 children in Niger. Poverty and starvation are common. No black American rappers have run to Niger's aid, instead preferring Bentleys. By 2050 or so, Africa's population is projected to explode into poverty and bigger numbers than the European Union (500 million people constituting 24% of global wealth). The EU fertility rate is a meagre 2.1 or so and highly dependent on Muslim and african immigration to sustain this rate.


in your newly imagined religion, how would your messiah view birth control and abortion? Is your messiah pro-life when that life constitutes a misery of starvation and an expanding cycle of population growth without economic growth.


what kind of a relationship would your messiah have with Keanu reeves, if any?


part of Niger's very many problems are polygamous marriages feeding in to a high birthrate and general poverty. Will your messiah be pro gay marriage? and if so, pro polygamous marriage after that? Why, why not?


how might legalized polygamy change life in the United states of Americans? And how can the supreme court of America not support legalizing polygamy after legalizing gay marriage.


imagine a wedding for your messiah, it might take place in the present in Arkansas and be a gay wedding. Or perhaps in the future and be polygamous (or even include a monkey in 2150!). Will it be in Utah and be same sex or multi-sexual/bi-sexual? Will your bride or groom messiah be marrying anyone from the trans-gender community during their polygamous marriage vows? If your bride / groom will also be marrying an animal, how will the language barrier be overcome, in a culturally sensitive way? (e.g., dogs shouldn't bark loudly around those with sensitive hearing, cats shouldn't be provided with scratching posts if this could trigger a post traumatic stress disorder in an attending war veteran or victim of mutilation).




note, this component constitutes the remaining 70-50% of course criteria.