*This is a comment Insidious Prophet left at The Book of Cletis. It was so amazing I just had to share with everyone. I hope you enjoy.*
Can somebody please point out to me where capitalism and free markets are mentioned in our constitution?
A true Christian, whether they are wealthy, middle class or poor should be appalled with the free market and our current, warped brand of capitalism.
Capitalism, we are told at a young age is the American way. Capitalism is about being competitive, it allows you to be anything you want to be, to be successful, to make as much money as you can. It is also about destroying your competitors and treating other human beings as modern day slaves to amass maximum profits.
How can a true Christian defend the mythical free market? A free market system that allows multinational corporations to steal the natural resources from the citizens of a country or community, a system that thrives and encourages slave wages and the exploitation and mistreatment of our fellow human beings around the globe?
So many Christians today raise their voices loudly in opposition to gay marriage, gay rights and abortion, but where are their voices in opposition to usury? Or the obscene greed on Wall Street, which is fueled by capitalism?
How can a Christian be okay with buying cheap affordable goods, goods made by our fellow man in a third world nation, who earns 7 cents an hour? How can a Christian be okay with buying clothes from places where the corporations are allowed to force pregnant young women to have abortions, so that they can continue to work for slave wages as the corporation gains more profits?
It seems so many Christians in America have replaced religion with nationalism and use religion only when it helps push their or their political party's agenda.
Welcome to America Babylon, now bow to Mammon, worship capitalism and serve the corporations.
2 comments:
That is so true. IP makes a really good point.
IP really does. I don't think Christians even realize what they're standing for when they say that they're for capitalism. It's kind of like the same thing Mark Twain points out in his War Prayer when Christians pray for victory for our troops. The fact that they don't realize what they're praying for totally entails.
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