And this is the exact misinterpretation I am trying to point out. A pure capitalist cannot be a looter. A pure capitalist, as demonstrated in Atlas Shrugged, first bases their interactions involving money on honesty. It is the looter who uses the flawed contract to steal your production.
So you think there is something "pure" out there?.....Anywhere?
Give me a name of a pure capitalist. Not even Ayn Rand was pure at anything. Christianity gives us our moral system. What morals does an atheist have? I may be speaking out of turn,( I haven't studied Ayn Rand as some have), but how much does an objectivist give to the poor? Are they expecting the others to give? I know they don't expect the government to give. Does this pure capitalist feed a starving person, or just say they shouldn't have squandered their money. Objectivism may work in a sterile closed, perfect environment, but I can't seem to find one of those. I'm sure the socialists in power now feel they are doing the "lord's" work by stealing my money and deciding who gets how much, but it's still not a perfect world. OTOH, Haiti has an earthquake and money comes pouring out of American pockets to help a corrupt backwards country ,.....just because. If you have no soul, that stuff doesn't happen. As a Christian, who can turn their back, just because you don't agree with their culture or politics? There must be a moral base for capitalism to work and freedom to exist. I just don't believe an atheist can be consistent to some made up code to live by. I've seen their treatment of babies and will never believe they have a soul. If they have no mercy for babies, what makes anyone think they will every have mercy on me. They would crush people like worms because their moral code required them to be "pure" and keep the books in balance.