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The Complex Ties Between Capitalism and Christianity |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Doug Bandow |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2006 |
| Size: 5,343 Words, 34,790 Characters |
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Introduction
British historian Paul Johnson called the twentieth century "the age of politics." It was a secular age, but faith had not disappeared. Rather, the gods had changed. The reigning theology was statism: government became god, charged with the people's salvation.
Not that this religious experiment worked well. The age of politics unleashed untold death and destruction while solving few of mankind's most vexing problems, such as poverty. To the contrary, all too often it was, and continues to be, government policy, usually inadvertently, but sometimes intentionally, that created and/or exacerbated social problems.
By the dawn of the new millennium the failure of politics to live up to its promises was evident to all but a dispirited band of zealots. Indeed, virtually no...
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...rring up covetousness and envy, and destroying the freedom that is a necessary precondition for virtue, socialism tears at the just social fabric that Christians should seek to establish. A Christian must still work hard to shed even a little of God's light in a capitalist society. But his task is likely to be much harder in a collectivist system.
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