''37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[c] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these...
@RayDalio got a turd in your pocket, ray. keep stacking those billions. you'll be in a bunker in a fox hole in new zealand, and like, 'i totes saw this coming.' u believe when u die you'll be eaten by worms for all eternity, but you don't know for sure.
@kayjac85@CryptoDoots@unusual_whales your premises don't demonstrate that capitalism is compatible with genuine christianity or with Jesus's teachings. at most, they show that some biblical principles can coexist with capitalism; not the same thing
@kayjac85@CryptoDoots@unusual_whales most of the principles you've cited aren't unique to capitalism, and appeals to prosperity or modern philanthropists aren't arguments from jesus's teachings. so I still can't see how the conclusion follows.
@kayjac85@CryptoDoots@unusual_whales i'm not moving the goalposts; been evaluating the same inference the whole time. more premises don't fix the inference if they still don't establish the conclusion.
@kayjac85@CryptoDoots@unusual_whales although you add supporting claims, the logic still fuzzy: again, most premises not unique to capitalism, or argue from historical outcomes rather than jesus. that doesn't demonstrate capitalism itself is therefore morally compatible with jesus.
@kayjac85@CryptoDoots@unusual_whales it's not that your premises are obviously false: just, many are compatible with multiple economic systems, so the premises don't uniquely establish the conclusion. and your argument is becoming:
'capitalism has many good features and good outcomes'.
@kayjac85@CryptoDoots@unusual_whales increased prosperity, too, doesn't establish moral compatibility with jesus's teachings. those are additional premises that you've merely asserted.
@kayjac85@CryptoDoots@unusual_whales you're still asserting the implication rather than demonstrating it. even if private property, stewardship, and voluntary charity are biblical principles, it doesn't follow that capitalism is therefore compatible with christianity.
@kayjac85@CryptoDoots@unusual_whales calling redistribution 'state theft' assumes your conclusion rather than proving it. No passage you've cited explicitly endorses capitalism as a system or establishes unique consistency with christianity.
@kayjac85@CryptoDoots@unusual_whales these don't refute the argument either. markets enable both voluntary and involuntary exchange, and faith can shape ethical conduct within them—or fail to, premises that are compatible with either conclusion, so not showing christianity's inherent compatibility with capitalism .
@kayjac85@CryptoDoots@unusual_whales prohibition of theft, private property, stewardship, voluntary charity, 'render unto caesar...', etc. points don't, on their own, establish compatibility with capitalism as a modern economic system, and are not unique to capitalism.
@kayjac85@CryptoDoots@unusual_whales inferential leaps of faith: jesus affirms private property? (not explicitly), the coin is treated as caesar's in some sense: so it validates ownership, taxes on it, and voluntary economic exchange? (inference), so jesus endorses markets and voluntary exchange? not explicitly.
@kayjac85@CryptoDoots@unusual_whales you invoke matthew 22 and then represent capitalism as:
'voluntary exchange, private property & markets'. however, those concepts don't appear in Matthew 22. The passage is about a poll tax and Jesus escaping a political trap.