One of the most influential moments in human history took place about two-thousand years ago when a young man named Jesus of Nazareth gave a sermon on a mountainside. He would later be arrested, suffer, die and be buried because of the beliefs he would summarize on that mountainside. Jesus was not political but he scared politicians. Jesus was not a clergyman but he exhausted the clergy.
Some four hundred years later Jesus's teachings would substantially slow the amount of executions in the Roman state, provide basic necessities for those unable to provide for themselves, and be-rid the age old Roman stigma of those that matter and those that do not. In the eyes of the new Christians everyone mattered.
Unfortunately America is regressing back to the days when there were the ones that mattered and the ones that did not. It is now, as it was then, that those that do not matter not only appear to be but are expendable. Albeit, death in a battlefield or death because you detract from a health insurers bottom line. No longer is power won with steel, as it was in Jesus's era, but now it is won with money. So hopefully, soon, someone will teach us that humanity is more important than the shekel.
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