The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Jim Wallis www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Have you ever asked yourself whether there is any other Christian view than the viewpoint of the Religious Right? Is there no other option but to say that God completely opposes […]
On science fiction and capitalism
Many science fiction writers–but not fantasy writers–are, in many ways, our secular modern version of the Delphic oracles who tried to look into the future. These writers have to construct imaginary worlds based on what is currently known about science and human history and posit various future histories based on what we have now and looking […]
On the Orthodox and economic theories
Father Orthoduck wishes to point out that Fr. Ernesto was completely unaware that there have been two discussions on the very subject on Ancient Faith Radio, the section called The Illumined Heart. Look under April 17, 2009 for the first part of the discussion. Look under the June 26, 2009 podcast for the second part […]
The Old Testament God was a socialist; the New Testament God is a capitalist, part 05
Well, some final thoughts, I think. As Orthodox Christians we can never run our personal economic system purely on what maximizes the market neither on what gives the most profit to owners and investors. Part of the point of citing the Sabbath Year and the Jubilee Year was to point out that even though the […]
The Old Testament God was a socialist; the New Testament God is a capitalist, part 04
I had a delightful time tonight in a discussion with a person who works in one of the chemical industries. It was over politics and religion. I am afraid that we missed talking about sex, which is just fine with me. However, I realized that it might be good to take a moment to more […]
The Old Testament God was a socialist; the New Testament God is a capitalist, part 03
As you can see from the comments to previous posts, there is a very strong reaction in America to posts having to do with economics. So, let’s keep going. The Year of Jubilee The biblical requirement is that the Jubilee year was to be treated like a Sabbatical year, with the land lying fallow, but […]
The Old Testament God was a socialist; the New Testament God is a capitalist, part 02
Now, you may expect me to advocate a particular economic viewpoint from the Old Testament, but I am not. In fact, I may say something that will surprise you. There is no way, with certainty, to support either one economic system or one political system simply from reading the Old Testament, or even the New […]
The Old Testament God was a socialist; the New Testament God is a capitalist, part 01
One of the raging debates in American Christianity today has to do with whether President Obama is a socialist. Much has been written about how God is not against people being rich, therefore implying that any attempt to regulate how people make riches is tantamount to opposing God’s economic policies, therefore it must be sin. […]
I don’t understand
OK, I do not understand. The majority of the Democrats vote for the 700 billion dollar rescue bill. The majority of the Republicans did not. Now the Republican party is blaming the Democrats for the failure to pass the bill. Supposedly, it is Rep. Pelosi’s fault because she made some objectionable remarks. Does this mean […]
