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To: ansel12

This is actually a very complex set of arguments with a very long history.

There are a lot of historical conservatisms. US conservatism of the present day is its own unique case, differing from much of the rest of the world. Russell Kirk’s “Conservative Mind” is a good place to start. The American uniqueness is the very subject of De Toqueville’s work.

Capitalism in fact was usually considered, in most religious traditions, including most of historical Christianity, as essentially godless and morally compromised.


76 posted on 02/26/2014 4:45:23 PM PST by buwaya
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To: buwaya

Not in America.


83 posted on 02/26/2014 4:52:09 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: buwaya; wardaddy; Kenny Bunk

“Capitalism in fact was usually considered, in most religious traditions, including most of historical Christianity, as essentially godless and morally compromised.”

Proof that you are profoundly ignorant of John Calvin’s writings on the subject.

The sterility of money concept that undergirds a hostility to capitalism comes out of ancient Greek philosophy, Aristotle in particular, not the Bible.


133 posted on 02/26/2014 7:16:30 PM PST by Pelham (If you do not deport it is amnesty by default.)
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