Prophets and Profits

The Day Christ Died

Christ Climbed Down by Ferlinghetti

Constantine Hijacks Christ

Bloodline of Jesus

The Spirit of Christmas -- Gift Exchange

Money by Edwin Walter Kemmerer, Princeton, 1935

Goods were exchanged long before money existed, and the origin of exchange was in gifts. One would make a present to another in the hope of obtaining a present in return. Our modern customs in regard to Christmas and birthday presents are reminiscent of these primitive forms of exchange.

 

Mammon by Robert Graves, Annual Oration, LondonSchool of Economics & Political Science, 1963

 

Let us go back farther in ancient history, to the idea of barter; and beyond that to the idea of obligatory gift-exchanges; and beyond that, to the still purer idea of unconditional gift. What we now call ‘finance’ is an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

 

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

 

Everyone could share the routine of necessary jobs for a few hours a day, and leave most of the time free for enjoyment, creativity, labors of love, and yet produce enough for an equal and ample distribution of goods.