[HT Wintry Knight] My friend Wintry Knight recently turned me on to an excellent American economist, statistician, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Milton Friedman. Here is a short clip of Milton answering a rather pointed question regarding our responsibility to the poor wherein Milton explodes the myth that Capitalism and [...]
A brother of mine recently wrote the following by way of advocating the position that “all Christians ought to be socialists”: Acts 2:44-45 “All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need’ Acts 4;32b, 34-35 “..neither said any of them that ought [...]
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I’ve been reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov on the way to work in the mornings and this passage from the first book really struck me as an excellent depiction of socialism and why it is embraced by a secular society. Emphesis mine. The path Alyosha chose was a path going in the opposite direction, [...]
A friend of mine recently recounted his disagreement with his son over their political choices, specifically Barak Obama and his struggle to explain to his son why Obama’s plans and ideals are incompatable with their shared Christian faith. The specific problem with Obama’s ideals, and hence their appeal to a wide range of people, is [...]
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