Posted on 10/03/2008 12:05:35 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
With current talk of possible ‘meltdown’ in the world economy, trillion-dollar bailouts and the like, I was reminded of a newsletter article I wrote some 18 years ago.1 This was at a time when a major Australian newspaper had issued a dramatic call for ‘the churches to “preach” ethics and morals to the embattled Australian business community”. Why? Because they clearly saw the link between declining morality and the then-deteriorating economic health of our country
Australia had been sinking into banana-republic-type foreign debt, then undergoing ‘the recession we had to have’.2 High-flying entrepreneurs who were public heroes in the 80s had been increasingly revealed as at best, irresponsible paper shufflers creating artificial debt bubbles, and at worst, corporate criminals whose schemes were done through loop-holes on the very edge of the law. They had severely damaged this country to the tune of many billions of dollars, for which all Australians were going to have to pay...
(Excerpt) Read more at creationontheweb.com ...
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Creationism -- Centralized Design -- Socialism
Oh, for cryin’ out loud. There were financial panics and meltdowns long before evolution became mainstream science.
:::Rolls eyes::: Sounds like something a leftist would say.
“If anything, so-called Darwinian analogies applied to business could be better described as Lamarckian analogies, because they involve the transmission of characteristics acquired through an organism’s conscious efforts to adapt to its environment. While it is true that social cooperation may not be guided by a single designer, that is not because the process is driven by random variations but because it results from the intelligent choices of innumerable designers interacting with each other.”
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=1163
Funny that -
historically it’s been evo-atheist ideologies that have undergirded collectivist governments.
The Judeo-Christian worldview inherently respects the value of the individual and the respect for private property - ie, capitalism.
The author never suggested otherwise. He is merely drawing a connection between evolution, the breakdown of morality, and economic deterioration.
And that is absurd. Y'all need to stop making evolution a bug-a-bear for every social ill. If you want to disagree with the scientific concepts associated with evolution, fine. I don't agree with every premise of the theory myself. But history has gone through cycles of morality and immorality long before Darwin hit the beach in the Galapagos. Look for the roots of such in the human heart and the dangers of the mob instead of in a scientific book.
Funny, I see plenty of flaming pinkos in various churches, who base their redistributionist viewpoints in the Gospels.
Smells like,.... the French Revolution?
There may be a verse here or there, that, when taken out of context, or extravagently extrapolated (like evolution), could be taken to justify collectivism,
but the basis of the Christian worldview is in the respect for and protection of private property, to be used (stewarded) for the Glory of God, at the choice of the person entrusted with it.
Hyperbole -- Ridiculous Conclusions -- steve-b
Aman! To paraphrase Mark Twain: "Only Adam ever saw any thing happen for the first time."
So then tell me how serfdom and landless peasantry, at the pleasure of the nobles that ruled them, was the state of most Christians for centuries?
I’m not sure how that relates to a violation of private property and I’m not going to indulge your need to snipe at religion.
Sorry that you hate God & Christianity so much.
Take it elsewhere.
So because I take issue with a broad, sweeping generalization of yours, I must hate Christianity. Gotcha.
Gee, I can't wonder why, other than the fact that the vast majority of people under feudal systems were forbidden the basic rights of property that we have. And the medieval church often buttressed the claims of the nobles to their rights of absolute control over peasants.
You see, I see that as a failing of man, not Christianity. However, one cannot sweepingly say that Christian principalities inherently support property rights and enterprise, because history shows otherwise.
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