Why Do Christians Worship Greed?

Only in America can one find significant numbers of Christians who argue that unfettered capitalism represents God's Plan for human thriving.

Because Americans live in a kind of perceptual bubble -- a bubble related to but not identical to financial bubbles of recent memory -- we have never seen the full extent of the devastation wrought by the "Washington consensus" on the lives of others and on the life of the planet itself. We've never seen the effects of the global sweatshop up close; we've never seen what privatized water markets look like in places like Bolivia; we've never asked whether ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - May. 22, 2009

A religion writer pushes back against some of the stupidest religion writing that equates godliness with greediness.

In his landmark book, Property, Duchrow makes a compelling case that concentrated economic power is, in fact, a form of theft from the world’s poor. He does this ... More »

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