I'll take it one step further. As humans are born free, capitalism as the free and voluntary trade of goods and services for personal or group gain, is the natural state of things
Capitalism wouldn't be conceptualized for over a millennia after Jesus' death. Yet the Jewish Law, to which Jesus Adhered, certainly believed in some of the basic principles like property rights and certainly didn't seem to have an inherent issue with Waged labor (witch, despite being rare, actually get's several mentions by Jesus himself. It'd be weird for Jesus to use wages as an analogy for salvation if he opposed the concept, Mathew 20).
The blunt realty is that the Bible has very little to say on economics and what it does have to say isn't very favorable to the anti-property crowd.
It is open to interpretation how Jesus would have thought about economics, but there are verses that would support him being a leftist. However, it is stupid to use ancient texts to prove some sort of point about today.
Some leftist pulled a, "I am more Christ-like than most Christians bc muh Jesus was a socialist" the other day and my eyes rolled SO HARD for the point I made in my last sentence. Modern politics =/= and ancient times
You can be anti-capitalism and not be communist. We have as a society brainwashed ourselves into believing Capitalism always existed and is synonymous with Democracy.
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Anti-capitalism isnt always communism
True, it could be fascism or any other kind of authoritarian government.
Democracy and Republicanism existed before Capitalism
Ig even catholic distributism,even though I like laissez faire better
I'll take it one step further. As humans are born free, capitalism as the free and voluntary trade of goods and services for personal or group gain, is the natural state of things
Sure, but I'm going to guess that they don't mean fascism lol
I forgot where Jesus said to give away all your wares; it's not illegal to give wares if the customer has coin.
And yet both anti-Christmas guys changed at the end of their stories.
As horrendous as the chart is: Not all anti-capitalists are communists.
All communists are socialists, but not all socialists are communists.
True, but I doubt that's what OP means.
Capitalism wouldn't be conceptualized for over a millennia after Jesus' death. Yet the Jewish Law, to which Jesus Adhered, certainly believed in some of the basic principles like property rights and certainly didn't seem to have an inherent issue with Waged labor (witch, despite being rare, actually get's several mentions by Jesus himself. It'd be weird for Jesus to use wages as an analogy for salvation if he opposed the concept, Mathew 20).
The blunt realty is that the Bible has very little to say on economics and what it does have to say isn't very favorable to the anti-property crowd.
NOOOOOO NOT SANTA😭😭😭😭😭😭
i cant believe he is capitalist now......
jesus vs santa claus rap battle NOW
That's some really wacko reasoning you got there, friend!
Ok, I actually think is is pretty funny
It is open to interpretation how Jesus would have thought about economics, but there are verses that would support him being a leftist. However, it is stupid to use ancient texts to prove some sort of point about today.
Some leftist pulled a, "I am more Christ-like than most Christians bc muh Jesus was a socialist" the other day and my eyes rolled SO HARD for the point I made in my last sentence. Modern politics =/= and ancient times
This one is definitely gunna be downvoted, but I stand by it.
You can be anti-capitalism and not be communist. We have as a society brainwashed ourselves into believing Capitalism always existed and is synonymous with Democracy.
Of course not, but something tells me that's not the message OP was going for...