Two talents became four .. Well done thou good and faithful servant ...
One talent buried and earned nothing .. Disobedient servant
keep in mind as the churches pass the plate
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs) is a slogan popularised by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program.[1] The phrase summarizes the principles that, in a communist society, every person should contribute to society to the best of his or her ability and consume from society in proportion to his or her needs. In the Marxist view,
on another note...As John Locke points out, reason tells you that you own your body. No one else owns your body—<\I>
A case where Locke was wrong and the source of prideful thinking that is the root of abortion and contraception.
Voice of reason
Many will be lead astray by false prophets...
and there is Matthew 25: 14-30 The Parable of the Talents.
God despises the greedy and fearful, but rejoices in the success of His servants.
Proverbs 3:14
Matthew 25: 14-30
Luke 19: 11-23
Ecclesiastes 11: 1
God calls us to be the best we can be for His glory. Capitalism calls for us to do the same. The greed and theft within the capitalist system is a sin as we are warned about in Timothy 6:10.
The Bible teaches us to take risk for His glory.
Capitalism is the only economic system is compatible with individual rights.
From “The Law”...
Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task.
You say: “Here are persons who are lacking in morality or religion,” and you turn to the law. But law is force. And need I point out what a violent and futile effort it is to use force in the matters of morality and religion?
It would seem that socialists, however self-complacent, could not avoid seeing this monstrous legal plunder that results from such systems and such efforts. But what do the socialists do? They cleverly disguise this legal plunder from others — and even from themselves — under the seductive names of fraternity, unity, organization, and association. Because we ask so little from the law — only justice — the socialists thereby assume that we reject fraternity, unity, organization, and association. The socialists brand us with the name individualist.
But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us, not free association. We repudiate forced fraternity, not true fraternity. We repudiate the artificial unity that does nothing more than deprive persons of individual responsibility. We do not repudiate the natural unity of mankind under Providence.
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.
But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. This process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.
Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
neat article!
An entrepreneur puts up his own money on a vision, builds it, doesn't get paid, puts in time, talent, and energy . . . all to present something to the public to see if it serves the public's needs. He doesn't get a dime if he doesn't serve his fellow man, regardless of his intentions. Only after he has served others well does he get paid.
In socialism, based on the "Labor Theory of Value," work=value, hence you should get paid for all work. If you go dig a hole in the Sahara desert that no one asked for and no one wants and, because of a law, you MUST get paid, then the ONLY person who has benefited is yourself. Hence, socialism is intrinsically selfish; capitalism, regardless of motivations, is intrinsically unselfish.
And, as Shakespeare would say, "there's the rub".
These people DON'T believe in God. They think we're just another 'animal', evolving by pure accident and chance, and thereby no better than a dog, horse, bird, or slug. Not only that, but the most deluded and evil of their lot believes that only by eliminating most of the human 'animal' from this world is the only way the world will survive.
Until that evil thinking is corrected by the Holy Spirit of God working in these sadly deluded people, then nothing will change. It is my prayer that they learn the truth.
Yup. Bring on another successful bout of communism, socialism or whatever the he** it is that they want.
(It really worked last century. All you have to do is count up the bodies and see how many nasty, greedy, evil capitalists were placed in their graves.)
IMHO
Major correction: USA is based on private enterprise. Capitalism is a subset of the truth.
Bookmarked.