Capitalist Idolatry
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Of all the idols of modern man, Capitalism may be one of the most challenging to overcome. Not because the wickedness of Capitalism is not manifest, for it is (and we will demonstrate this in today’s episode), but because it has been sold as the only alternative to Communism — a system so wicked that no Christian can possibly support it. Yet the choice is not binary, and those who would claim that it is seek to mislead the Christian into supporting a system that is, in point of fact, anti-Christ.
It is the lack of concern for one’s neighbor — a feature built into the Capitalist system and inextricable from it — that should immediately raise alarm bells for the Christian man. Under Capitalism, it is the maximum extraction of profit (itself a dubious category, insofar as it is a vague term) that serves as guiding principle, and yet this is an alien and hostile thing to the Christian system of ethics and morality. Need it even be said that the extraction of maximized profits runs diametrically counter to the second-greatest commandment:
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Throughout the pages of Scripture, God repeatedly states His concern for the poor, the needy, and the exploited, and yet Capitalism relies, in no small part, upon the extraction of profits from those very categories of the most vulnerable. Ours is not a Marxist critique of Capitalism, but a Christian one. The central question: Is Capitalism compatible with Christianity? We answer in the negative.
Mammon is an old god, an idol served by many men from may nations across many centuries. The love of money is not the root of all evils, but, in the words of Scripture, it is certainly the root of many evils, and, in fact, may serve as the stumbling stone upon which faith may founder:
»For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.«
— 1 Timothy 6:10 (ESV)
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still, whoa. |
| 0:45.4 | On today's Stone Choir, we're going to be discussing the evils of capitalism. Capitalism is effectively |
| 0:52.7 | a competing moral system that we have all been inculcated in |
| 0:58.6 | our entire lives. So just saying the evils of capitalism, I'm sure made some people angry already. |
| 1:04.0 | That's one of the things we enjoy doing years, pushing buttons that no one ever pushes. |
| 1:09.7 | The reason that we're tackling capitalism today is that |
| 1:12.5 | as I mentioned a few weeks ago when we were talking about the Reformation, there's a lot of confusion |
| 1:18.4 | of kind. So I mentioned the Reformation episode that there's the history of the Western Christian |
| 1:25.6 | Church and the fact that for a long time Roman Catholicism was the only Christianity in town. |
| 1:32.3 | And so when someone looks back prior to 1500, there are those who say, well, if it's Christian, then it is Roman Catholic and therefore they're interchangeable, without being able to separate the things that were distinctly Roman Catholic from the things that were more generally Christian. |
| 1:47.0 | Capitalism kind of works the same way. |
| 1:49.0 | We're going to go through a definition from misas.org. |
| 1:54.0 | As I mentioned before, I used to be huge into Austrian economics. |
| 1:57.0 | I read a lot more about that than I've ever read about theology, which I could have |
| 2:01.4 | that time back because it was a waste. But I learned some interesting things that turned |
| 2:05.4 | out mostly to be false. They're the number one resource for finding out what the best form |
| 2:11.4 | of these ideas are. So we're going to use their definition of capitalism to show what |
| 2:17.0 | complete nonsense it is. As we go through it, I'm going to be laughing definition of capitalism to show what complete nonsense it is. |
| 2:18.3 | As we go through it, I'm going to be laughing a lot because some is just facially false. |
| 2:23.3 | It's literally historically just wrong. |
| 2:27.3 | It's a lie. |
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