Posted on 11/13/2009 7:35:55 PM PST by aSeattleConservative
When actor Jim Carrey was quoted as saying the following "I was thinking about it this morning, how this story ties into everything we’re going through.” “Every construct we’ve built in American life is falling apart. Why? Because of personal greed and ambition. Capitalism without regulation can’t protect us against personal greed.. . .". Carrey was right, sort of.
The "regulation" Carrey should have been talking about was Christian values (instead it was obvious he was talking about more government control via regulations). The values, customs, conventions, and norms of the Judeo-Christian tradition inform and guide a free society. Without such ordinances, society induces its decay by embracing a relativism that rejects an objective moral order. A free market economy (i.e. "capitalism") is subject to decay as well without "such ordinances".
"The current crisis sheds light on what happens when things get out of control. Dishonesty enters the picture at many levels, and the economy is threatened by a lack of trust. Without trust, the entire system collapses. This current crisis should also remind Christians that we are called to be good stewards. Everything we are, everything we do, and everything we own truly belongs to God and is to be at the disposal of Kingdom purposes. This world is not our home and our treasure is not found here. We are to do all, invest all, own all, purchase all to the glory of God."
Re-read what was written in the attachment. It might have been over your head. Some understood it, others didn’t.
Yeah. I’m pretty slow, and subtleties are lost on me. Carrey is not a busybody and a jerk? He doesn’t think he can make judgments about how much wealth others may accumulate and be ignorant that he thereby gives sanction for his own wealth to be subject to the same judgments?
My thread really wasn’t at all about Jim Carrey. The free enterprise system has been very good to him. He’s obviously a liberal that takes our Constitution for granted. What I was pointing out via the attachment was: It’s Judeo-Christian values that make the free market work, not government looking over everyone’s shoulder to make certain they don’t cheat, lie or steal.
My post was. The rest of what you say is a given with me (has been for near seventy years)
You don’t “write” a day over 69. :)
I'm going on 74, but I wasn't "ideological" until the summer I was three when I announced at the supper table that I was going to Germany (or so I am told).
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