For the conversation, I'd like to put the emphasis on the word hierarchy in the Great Hierarchy of Being and offer an example.
Namely that There is only One Great Commandment.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. – Matthew 22:37-40
But when we invert those two commandments, the result is "Liberation Theology" which of course is Obama's spiritual Christian roots.
In that theology, the true believers put loving neighbor and self ahead of loving God and defiantly declare that if God does not meet their standard of loving their neighbors and self as they think they do, then they reject God.
The consequence of such inverted true belief is socialism.
What a brilliant insight, Alamo-Girl! When the "preferential option for the poor" is established as the main focus of religion, God is eclipsed; the proper hierarchical relation is inverted; and we lose the meaning of "the poor" stressed in Holy Scripture, which is not just a description of someone who is economically disadvantaged ("The poor ye shall always have with you"); but someone who is "poor in spirit," meaning: a man who walks with God in humility — meaning a man who puts God first in his life.
I certainly agree with your conclusion: "The consequence of such inverted true belief is socialism."
Thank you ever so much for you most perceptive essay/post, dearest sister in Christ! — and for your very kind words!