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No, listen, how can you share nothing?? What good is poverty to anyone??

No, God's plan is one of plenty for all. Our system is the best way to creat things to share. Through our desire to create we draw others into our plans and dreams and they propsper too.

Just think about it.

John

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"Do not love the world or anything in the world," wrote the Apostle John in his First Epistle. "If anyone loves the world the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world -- the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does -- comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever." (I John 2: 15-17)

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God and the Economy: Is Capitalism Moral? Is capitalism Christian? No. It neither advances existing human virtues nor corrects ingrained personal vices; it merely reflects them. But socialism is less consistent with several Biblical tenets for it exacerbates the worst of men’s flaws. By divorcing effort from reward, stirring up covetousness and envy, and destroying the freedom that is a necessary precondition for virtue, it tears at the just social fabric that Christians should seek to establish. A Christian must still work hard to shed even a little of God’s light in a capitalist society. But his task is likely to be much harder in a collectivist system.

Doug Bandow is senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics.