The Corporation Will Eat Your Soul - By Dr. Davidson Loehr

[mermaid]

I am a member of a Unitarian Universalist church in Austin, Texas. My former church, also a UU Church in Austin (but on the north side of town) has a minister by the name of Dr. Davidson Loehr.

I began attending a new UU church we started in south Austin, simply because it is closer to my home, but last week, I had occasion to go to my former church, in my capacity as a voter registrar, and attempt to register some voters, with Dr. Loehr's blessing.

Naturally, since the vast majority of UU's are both activists and liberals, most of what I got were address changes...as I'd expected.

What I got that I DIDN'T expect, however, was a VERY dynamic sermon by Dr. Loehr, which apparently he'd given before, since it is archived on that church's web site.

I thought I'd share it here today, because more than our church needs to hear these words. I'm following DU protocol, by posting only the first four paragraphs, and a link to the rest. Read it. It's absolutely incredible!!
-Mermaid

The Corporations Will Eat Your Soul
Davidson Loehr
25 April 2004 (I heard this on 9/1/04)
First UU Church of Austin
4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756
www.austinuu.org



SERMON: The Corporations Will Eat Your Soul

You may know the story of the frog and the scorpion. A scorpion wanted to cross a swift river, and asked a frog to carry him on his back. The frog asked “How do I know that you won’t sting and kill me as soon as you get on my back?” “Well,” answered the scorpion, who was good with words when he wanted something, “then I wouldn’t be able to get across the river.” “Well,” said the frog, “then how do I know that you won’t sting and kill me as soon as we’re across the river?” “Oh,” said the scorpion, “because I’ll be so grateful for the ride, why would I want to kill you then?”

This convinced the frog — apparently, frogs are easy to convince in stories — so he let the scorpion on his back, and began swimming across the river. They were about 2/3 of the way across the raging river, when, to his great surprise, the frog felt a painful sting and looked around to see the scorpion pulling his stinger out of the frog’s back. Very soon, the frog felt himself becoming numb. Just before he was completely paralyzed, the frog had the breath to ask “Why?” “It’s just my nature,” said the scorpion, as they both sank into the river and drowned. “It’s just my nature.”

Of course, the story was never really about scorpions. It was meant as a warning against certain rare but dangerous kinds of people whose nature, like that of scorpions, is to destroy others even if it destroys them too.

I think the reason this is such a frightening story is because a person like the scorpion, a person who lacked even basic compassion, isn’t quite human.


Read the rest: http://austinuu.org/sermons/2004/2004-04-25-TheCorporationsWillEatYourSoul.html

[skooooo]

1. Excellent sermon..

I'm going to look up that old issue of Forbes mentioned in it.

[2Design]

2. Corporations with people rights and no responsibilities will kill

our world. Like HAL in 2001, machines, the corporations have taken over. They only serve their stockholders. They have all the legal rights of an individual but none of the responsibilities.

FDR is one who helped the workers.
Currently we are heading toward the industrial time before workers rights and it hurts the majority.

[mermaid]

3. EXACTLY the Point Of The Sermon!! n/t

[mermaid]

4. kick n/t