What is with trendyfucks and random stringing together of "rebellious" concepts

[Mensch1351]

Not really, I am a christian, a firm believer in capitalism and western culture. I just need to be firm when the only one with my beliefs, be it in a classroom or on a forum. Sorry if dissenting views (in your case "the system") bother you.

Then Sorry to burst your bubble --- but Christianity per se does not SUPPORT a capitalist viewpoint. Early Christianity followed the principle of Jesus that his followers were NOT to loan money at interest to fellow believers. It was therefore the Christians of Europe who ended up making the Jews the bankers of Europe. You couldn't go to a Christian to borrow money, but you COULD go to a Jew for a loan! Of course, (in a twist of irony) the Christians ended up becoming extremely jealous of the Jews for their great wealth!! If you read the first chapters of the Book of Acts, the early Christian church seemed more in tune with Socialism in bringing their goods to the feet of the disciples for re-distribution in order to have "all things in common."
While as a modern day Christian I am not OPPOSED to Capitalism. I think AMERICAN Capitalism has gotten very far away from a fundamental principle: The AMOUNT of profit should reflect an "honest" gain. It shouldn't gauge or take advantage of. When Capitalism cannot be separated from "profiteering" -- the system has gone awry. Those who have been blessed are not supposed to "tear down their barns to build 'bigger' barns." They are blessed to BE a blessing to those who for a multitude of circumstances have found themselves in dire straits. Christian CONSCIENCE should dictate that when I have MORE than I could ever hope to spend to meet my needs, my eye is to turn to my neighbor -- and especially "the LEAST of these," to offer my help and service.

There is a fine line between those who spend their energies trying to "protect" their wealth at the expense of those who have little and those hoarding and scheming in order to make sure that those at the bottom NEVER have the opportunity to reach higher! I think the scene of the Last Judgment speaks volumes to our American "twist" on the capitalist mindset/system. To whom much is given --- much IS expected!!

 

[Nrets]

"Mary was a virgin
God must be a fag"

Fuck capitalism
Fuck Christianity
Fuck the KKK
Fuck liberals
Fuck conservatives
Fuck consumerism
Fuck Western Civilization
Fuck industrialization
Fuck organized religion
Fuck a society that makes people sell their souls
Fuck oppression
Fuck anyone who disagrees

Now...I am going to go out and drive 40 miles and buy myself a latte at Starbucks, $60 of gas, and several cases of Hefewesen while blasting Jack Johnson CD using money from my Dad's pension.

HAHAHA...you all are paying for me to go out and party.

FUCK YOU

(actually I don't own any Jack johnson...but hey.... some of that was true)

 

[B_cigarbabe]

I wanna come to your party!
cigarbabe:saevil:

 

[B_Gravedancer]

I never said Christianity supports capitalism. It is simply the most humanistic, least coercive and most natural form of economics. Any thing else is totalitarian.

P.S. grammar Nazism is another way of saying "I have no argument, I am pwned"

 

[D_Davy_Downspout]

I never said Christianity supports capitalism. It is simply the most humanistic, least coercive and most natural form of economics. Any thing else is totalitarian.

P.S. grammar Nazism is another way of saying "I have no argument, I am pwned"

Hah, no, it's saying "I can understand what you typed, I don't speak "retard", which is what everyone else was saying.

 

[Phil Ayesho]

I never said Christianity supports capitalism. It is simply the most humanistic, least coercive and most natural form of economics. Any thing else is totalitarian.

P.S. grammar Nazism is another way of saying "I have no argument, I am pwned"

If you think capitalism is MORE humane than other systems... you don't know shit.

Try boning up on the early 20th century and how the only way the US avoided a communist revolution was thru the adoption of socialist reforms....

Child labor- the Triangle fire- company towns and company stores resulting in lifelong indentured servitude- The Robber Barons... All of this and much much more was the direct result of free market thinking in the 1880 thru 1920's.


What Saved this nation from communism was LAWS allowing labor unions, laws forcing a 5 day work week, forbiding child labor, requiring corporations to pay for workplace injuries...


ALL of these lambasted as "socialist" at the time... and ALL staunchly resisted by the monied elite.

And today? We don't even think of the child labor laws and worker's comp laws as being "socialist".... its just how things are...

Capitalism, unrestrained and total is JUST as totalitarian as ANY idea taken to its logical extreme.


A truly humane society has BOTH socialism and capitalism, hand in hand, acting to dynamically balance each other.

And on the level of the Family- we even have a dash of communism...



Seriously- the world and human culture is big enough to embrace, and even require, more than one simplistic idea to make it go.


That capitalism is a powerful engine for growth DOES NOT MEAN that MORE would be better.

The cells of your body are also powerful engines of growth- you NEED that ability of cells to multiply to grow up and to keep your body in good repair...

But TOO much growth, un-regulated growth, of those same cells and you have cancer.

Stop thinking in bumper stickers...



TRY and become a trifle more sophisticated than tooting the one horn you happen to know.

 

[B_VinylBoy]

Just when you think you've seen it all. Grammar Nazism?
Wow. Alert al the English teachers of America that they're being deported!!!