tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post556668240540999175..comments2024-02-13T12:50:30.457-05:00Comments on Rants Within the Undead God: Capitalism and Conservative Christianity: the Biblical Roots of the Fraud Benjamin Cainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00661999592897690031noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post-59716809647704599832022-04-15T09:03:37.948-04:002022-04-15T09:03:37.948-04:00Thanks. This is a rather elaborate article, and I ...Thanks. This is a rather elaborate article, and I don't remember all its details. But the subject here is also low-hanging fruit. So-called conservative Christianity, as in the White Evangelical, Republican kind is an appalling disgrace. There's an embarrassment of riches, in terms of the arsenal that can be brought to bear against that disgrace.<br /><br />I used to write more dialogues. They're fun and challenging to write, but they never did so well for me on Medium. Maybe that's because they got to be too long or the format is too literary for the casual reader.Benjamin Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661999592897690031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post-37212784047721092242022-04-02T23:30:33.829-04:002022-04-02T23:30:33.829-04:00Ben,
The dialogue between the Christian and the s...Ben,<br /><br />The dialogue between the Christian and the skeptic is a great and definitive way to demonstrate Christian hypocrisy and its inconsistency.<br />"you're not even worth talking to". That's right: let's not waste time debating with faithful practitioners of any doctrine.<br /><br />The analysis of the collapse of Detroit, the interest decreed by the Fed under Paul Volcker, the decrease in steel production, not only in the United States, but in Europe and in "developing" countries (euphemism not to say underdeveloped), followed the same path.<br /><br />"the prison industry" that many "experts" from countries with a high level of corruption admire and try to copy and install in their countries, as is the case of Brazil, is hateful and anti-human.<br /><br />"America was founded more on Enlightenment philosophy than on biblical principles, which is why that country's government was designed to be anti-monarchical and thus implicitly anti-monotheistic".<br />Today's monarchies are quite different from those of the 1800s and early 1900s. There is no longer a super-powerful monarch, but a prime minister who falls, is replaced, and democracy and institutions continue, without major upheavals, crises and even revolutions. in countries that adopt some form of democracy. And they are secular states.<br /><br />The pictures you used are worth a thousand words each, but the best ones, for me, are "We can't dismantle industrial capitalism; without it, we wouldn't have anti-depressants", and Calvin's comics.<br /><br />This confrontation between Christian democrats and the skeptic reminded me of another philosophical work (would it be yours?) on the impossibility of understanding good and evil, which can never be resolved. Do you have a paper on this? If not, could you write it?<br /><br />Thanks for posting, no adjectives; lest you come to understand that I am a flirt.Flavio Musa F Guimarãeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06914761702789215934noreply@blogger.com