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Its theologians consider sin the root source of poverty, the sin in question being exploitative capitalism and class war by the rich against the poor. In the United States, the Social Gospel was pursued in response to increased ideas of capitalist ideas and social Darwinism , calling on protections of people against perceived threats from ...
Michael Moore's film Capitalism: A Love Story also features a religious component where Moore examines whether or not capitalism is a sin and whether Jesus would be a capitalist, [82] in order to shine light on the ideological contradictions among evangelical conservatives who support free market ideals.
To do so, one would first have to find a general concept of religion and then clarify whether the phenomenon of capitalism can be subsumed under it, along with traditional religions. There is still no general definition of religion in the social sciences; even Weber, who only described religious practices, abandoned the attempt to define it.
It can be argued that private charity is insufficient because the benefits from it accrue to people other than those who make the gifts-again a neighborhood effect. I am distressed by the sight of poverty; I am benefited by its alleviation; but I am benefited equally whether I or someone else pays for its alleviation; the benefits of other ...
Although not a detailed study of Protestantism but rather an introduction to Weber's later studies of interaction between various religious ideas and economics (The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism 1915, The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism 1916, and Ancient Judaism 1917), The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism argues that Puritan ethics and ideas ...
The treatments of democratic capitalism by religious writers, in papal encyclicals and mainline Protestant theology, have not really understood its essence. So democratic capitalism needs a moral theory about itself, to define a "political economy most consonant with Judaic tradition and the Christian gospels".(p20)
“There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.” — George Sand “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do ...
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the pursuit of profit, and forever renewed profit, by means of continuous, rational, capitalistic enterprise. For it must be so: in a wholly capitalistic order of society, an individual capitalistic ...