This one hits worryingly close to home
Christianity and capitalism aren’t compatible but no one is ready to have that conversation
Capitalism absorbed Christianity because it was dominant at the time it came into being. What Christ said isn’t important, what’s important is that Christianity could provide structures capitalism could latch onto that enabled it to grow and consume everything in its path. If Christ and capitalism are at odds capitalism always wins.
So yes they are incompatible, but at the same time they aren’t. Christianity is exactly what capitalism wants it to be.
Capitalism comes about as a response to the failures of Mercantilism. This happens about 1400-1650 years after Christianity begins.
I think they’re saying the latch on happened because Christianity was prominent when Capitalism was born.
Isn’t there a story in the Bible where Jesus kicks the merchants out of a church and punches them?
Christianity is the perfect religion for capitalists. They can do all the harm they want while they’re alive and all they have to do is ask for forgiveness to go to heaven.
I think it’s more that Christians are mad that they would be helping others who don’t share their same belief system.
Which is funny because that’s exactly what the Bible tells them not to do
Bold of you to assume that Christians actually read the Bible.
Love is the sister to hate. It’s very easy to convert one to the other. “Love” your enemies. Love is the Christian codeword for hate. God “loves” you with the intensity of 1000 suns. Climate change is god’s love.
“Love thy neighbor, unless they’re gay, black, immigrant or they think different from you, then harass then and make false allegations and boycott every woke media” - somewhere in the Bible.
I think that was in Shitforbrains 24:7 or was it Propaganda 69:420?
Either was totes there, Jesus was big on hating thy neighbor.
also remember how jesus helped and fed poor people? well that’s commie bullshit, we don’t do that here
I’ve had this exact same epiphany after having arguments with my parents about politics… Like, “You made me this way!”
It’s very sad. I’m fortunate that it was the opposite for me. Born into a hyper-conservative Catholic family, then when 3 out of 4 of their children wound up LGBTQ, they realized that God might have been telling them something. They’re extremely and refreshingly Christ-like, and total allies. They treat my same-sex fiancé as their full-blown in-law.
