The Bible says that "The love of money is the root of all evil".
Capitalism is about profit, and centered around the love of money.
2006-12-18 02:41:04 · 12 answers · asked by Люди логики излишек 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That doesn't mean the love of money = evil. It just means that evil can be the result of love of money.
An example would be Enron. But that doesn't mean all corps are evil. Far from it, most corporations are forces for good in the world, supplying us with products and services we use, employing us, and returning profits to it's owners, the stockholders.
2006-12-18 17:59:47 · answer #1 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In America the religious right are rich capitalists. There is also a strain of Christianity that teaches lies from the pits of hell that God wants you to be rich. Capitalism is greed and money love. The root of all evil. Yes, the Bible means to say that because it is evil. What Jesus and the Apostles taught would be true communism. More in the hippy commune kinda way (minus the the free love and drugs) then the USSR/China way.
Only in a debauched society could we be so brainwashed as to believe that capitalism is OK with God
2006-12-19 11:55:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although the Bible doesn't blatantly say "capitalism is evil" it does contain numerous and significant verses opposing money, desire, and greed. The Bible teaches that greed and want (the foundation of capitalism) ultimately leads to sin.
2006-12-18 02:45:35 · answer #3 · answered by chhackett3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Acts that's mentioned that the early Christians shared all products in worry-unfastened. The assertion attributed to Jesus that "in case you have 2 coats, supply one to he that has none" additionally means that there is a cut back to the quantity of wealth you are able to truly convey jointly. Wealth is the by utilising-made from greed and hoarding. people who held onto it for many generations shaped the aristocratic elite of Europe for hundreds of years. The peasant revolts of the 16th and seventeenth centuries had an anthem that went "If Adam delve and Eve span--who's then the comfortable guy?" meaning if Adam and Eve are the mother and dad of all, how could desire to absolutely everyone of their little ones placed on airs? and of direction the French Revolution replaced into all approximately removing nobility. one among united states of america's founding truths replaced into "All are created equivalent". Monopolies are consistently having to be put in verify by utilising anti-monopoly rules because of the fact they have not have been given any cumpunction approximately destroying small organisation.
2016-10-05 11:17:04 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Difference; It is how one plans to use that money. Money is a tool, allowed man by God.
Plenty of examples; how did Joseph use 'money' during the famine?
2006-12-18 02:48:10 · answer #5 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it condemns those who are obsessed with pursuing wealth to the exclusion of spiritual matters. It says a man cannot serve two masters so you can't be a slave to materialism and also be a spiritual person.
2006-12-18 02:45:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is evil. However, living in a capitalist nation you will never hear the government admit this because it would be political suicide for them.
2006-12-18 02:43:46 · answer #7 · answered by jonathan x 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it doesn't. The Bible supports the idea of private ownership while it condemns greed.
2006-12-18 03:02:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything that is not God is evil. Including your money.
2006-12-18 02:44:01 · answer #9 · answered by Hate Boy! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good call! I would have to say yes!
2006-12-18 02:43:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋