Re: Eric Cantor is Gone
Thanks, but it's often difficult to tell when liberals are joking or being serious.
There may be something known as Christian Capitalism but it's of little consequence.
Which is why its of little consequence. Nobody really cares about it.
These are questions no one is raising and there seems little interest in the subject.
"....difficult to tell when liberals are joking or being serious."
I'm just going to ignore the little "bon mot" about "the libruls" and plod firmly along with the subject instead.
That okay with you?
Okay, it is entirely possible that you might have missed this bit of writing from Brat.
Capitalism is here to stay, and we need a church model that corresponds to that reality.
Read Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s diagnosis of the weak modern Christian democratic man was spot on.
Jesus was a great man. Jesus said he was the Son of God. Jesus made things happen. Jesus had faith. Jesus actually made people better.
Then came the Christians.
What happened? What went wrong? We appear to be a bit passive. Hitler came along, and he did not meet with unified resistance.
(WTF??????????)
I have the sinking feeling that it could all happen again, quite easily.
The church should rise up higher than Nietzsche could see and prove him wrong.
We should love our neighbor so much that we actually believe in right and wrong, and do something about it.
If we all did the right thing and had the guts to spread the word, we would not need the government to backstop every action we take.
I think the main point is that we need to synthesize Christianity and capitalism.
“God and the Advanced Mammon — Can Theological Types Handle Usury and Capitalism?” - Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology
Here's this supposedly highly educated professor, expecting us to believe that if we all just group hug and embrace his Christian pop-psy pablums,
no one will do anything wrong anymore and we won't need government. One could also interpret it as "we better embrace the tenets of
Christian capitalism or Hitler will come back."
This is so utterly absurd it would be funny, except it's a guy who intends to lead in elected office and make laws.
I almost hate to dredge up the old cliche about how this is some kind of
"extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all"...except that, in this case, it happens to fit.
So if there really is little interest in the subject we might want to direct a little more of it in that direction because that's the kind of twaddle that's being peddled in much of the Evangelical prosperity gospel megachurches today and this guy sounds like he's their Timothy Leary.
And I don't want religion mucking about in my economics, or my laws. If I wanted to live in a theocracy there are plenty to choose from.
I won't even delve further into the hypocrisy of the whole Hitler business, seeing as how I assume most folks are aware of the fact that Hitler managed to
coerce Christian churches into supporting his ideology and his long range plans with nary a whimper.
This man's writings sound like pure nut-phuquery.