He wouldn't?! Crazy! I was sure "Render to Casear" meant "Get yourself into an aggressively managed portfolio of investments that uses advanced investment strategies such as leveraged, long, short and derivative positions in both domestic and international markets with the goal of generating high returns!" Back to seminary for me. Maybe MM can recommend one.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
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Hey R. I don't know much about Moore other than conservatives don't like him. One thing he said in there related to replacing capitalism with democracy was, I thought, interesting.
I think you're right, that it is interesting. Moore, in a lot of respects, is on an altruistic enterprise (even if he does so in underhanded, deceitful ways). Still, I find his arguments painfully, naively Utopian.
There is no distribution of wealth without massive, governmental involvement.
Peter Berger says, and I think rightly, that you can have capitalism without democracy (e.g. China), but you can't have democracy without capitalism. It just isn't possible, despite Moore's belief that we are smart enough today to come up with a more sensible solution. If he truly believed his faith's teachings, he'd realize that humans are the problem, not the philosophy. Guns don't kill people, nor does capitalism. It's depravity that ruins, plain and simple. And so we must find the best of the worst. In my estimation, that's Capitalism.
Now with respect to Jesus, chiding the world on his behalf to change global economic philosophy rings so hollow to me because Jesus, if he actually were to come again (without the sword and the tatoo), wouldn't care in the slightest what was happening up top. He'd say the same thing he said when he came the first time: "Nothing is well, get well in me."
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