I might be a bit radical. True.

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I would see political and social change.  Back to a better time?  No, simply to a more reasoned future.  Government doesn't work that way, it never has.  It is a necessary evil, but it only works so long as it can be kept in check.  There are currently no bounds on this government.  It has taken so many unprecedented powers to itself, that, essentially, it can't be stopped by political machinations... the very things that allowed the imbalance to begin with, in failing to uphold their constitutionally allotted powers regarding restricting other branches, and sisters, of itself.  But politics is and always was about money, about flesh.  It can only be hoped that laws hold accountability, are fair, and do not unduly hinder business, as to wealth and it's natural flow.  Government isn't about morality, for the most part, save very loosely.  So, politics, of the poor, rich, middle class, or politics in general, really isn't where my radical nature is derived.

Of all the revolts and movements for change in all the world, only one concerns me.  All save that one instance were about choosing who got to choose who and how others could economically function, whether through allowing free-markets to work as the better of options or choosing who could and could not do business depending on bribery, graft, black-mail, and the rest as the worst of options.  Still, all save one revolution was based on things of flesh, things that not only have but will die or be lost to death.  If you can't take it with you when your mortal coil fails, that is what governments concern.

The only true Radical I have personally ever realized to be a true Radical did not concern Himself with these things.  Nor did He come to develop peace on earth, or good will toward men.  He came to separate father from son, mother from daughter, husband from wife.  He came to tear down all the governments of the world.  He came to teach men, through even torture and death, to deny the flesh.  He even showed us how.  It isn't about politics, you say?  True, to a degree.  It isn't about the politics of men, for sure.  It isn't about wealth, you suggest?  True, not of the sort that deals excesses.  But surely you are allowed to eat, sleep in reasonable comfort and safety, and store enough for hard times.

While I have never heard it suggested that we should surrender all, save one man with lust for his possessions, I have heard that we were to go forth and find prosperity.  That requires a system that is fair and open, politically, socially.  Further, any gains are to be seen as less important than choosing God.  To lose every possession is far less than losing one's soul, if for no other reason than that you will lose your possessions at death in any case.  There is more to it, but that is a starting point for those who doubt or are on the fence.  For those who believe in death, one way or another, there is nothing you can tell them.  And, it is logical.  Nor are we asked to jump onto the spikes and destroy ourselves, end our lives, for our sins or the sins of the world.  If too, we should no more hold onto our lives, as with any possession, something we are bound to lose in time, in order for temporal ease or in going against God for the sake of our lives.

Christ was the only radical that has, or ever will, mean anything.  And He does stand against most of what we have come to understand.  So, when I go through my rages, I simply suggest... now that they are targeted, and even though even I fear them (oddly my lady friends never have feared me in those moments... nor my cats), I think they have a purpose.  So when I play something like the following, understand... there is reason in there.  It isn't empty.  Whether you or I understands it fully matters little.  I have to wonder just how angry Christ is?  Perhaps, being God, not at all.  Perhaps.  But, even if so, there is no reason we don't have call to be angry in His place, for Him for our part.  And we should be radicals, too.  Just not like the one's who have given themselves that mantle without bleeding for it.


Mind you, it isn't for me to start the riot.  That is for Another, in His time.  I am merely to resist what He will be rioting against, even to physical impoverishment and death.  And I am to be ready for when He returns.  And so I am.  However, that doesn't mean I will allow myself or mine to come under the lash of unrighteousness.  I will pay the price, happily, if need be.  Christ did not teach me peace.  He taught me freedom, which is immortal.  That can't, and won't, be taken from me even should I lose everything for it.  Radical indeed.