RE: The connection between Christianity and Capitalism
August 1, 2018 at 7:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2018 at 7:32 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 1, 2018 at 6:39 pm)Khemikal Wrote: All things to all men.
All things to all needy infants. Nothing at all to real men.
(August 1, 2018 at 5:31 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Rob it would seem that jesus was not the sharpest knife in the drawer!
He does seem confused about who his father was.
(August 1, 2018 at 5:11 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Sure, it was always about the money. Take the case when after St. Francis's death in 1226, his followers who attempted to continue to embrace a life of poverty were burned at the stake as heretics. The Church had no desire to encourage poverty because it had become committed to the financial power structure of Europe.
Churches has every desire to encourage the sort of poverty that comes from giving the Church all your money.
It’s commitment to the financial power structure is only as strong as the fact that people with swords didn’t feel like just giving the Church all their money.
