(246)S11E4/4: The False Prophet of Corporatism - Christian

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Episode Outline/Transcript: https://docs.google.com/docume....nt/d/1dhT8BEf9sUA_Iz


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Embezzlement - The Corporate Sin of Contemporary Christianity: https://fragmentsandreflection....s.files.wordpress.co


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Early Church and Economic Justice: https://www.plough.com/en/topi....cs/faith/discipleshi


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How early church made peace with prosperity: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119011923/https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/december-web-only/how-early-church-made-peace-with-prosperity.html&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1668782838843771&usg=AOvVaw3sQ7loLRiSg_03ISB6XZHb


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Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpGupes7NvI


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Max Weber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICppFQ6Tabw


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Jon Wesley and Money: https://dwswanson.com/2007/09/....10/john-wesley-on-mo


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Patient Firment of the Early Church: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26266696-the-patient-ferment-of-the-early-church?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=M9EqfDoP5R&rank=1


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On the Government of God: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17181811-on-the-government-of-god?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=72Wx6xJnXN&rank=1


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Fair Play: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176691.Fair_Play?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=9oa4n8cB9n&rank=1


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Bonhoeffer Prison Letters: https://ms.wearesparkhouse.org/downloads/9781506402741_Editor's%20Introduction%20to%20the%20Reader's%20Edition.pdf


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War is a Racket: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198259.War_is_a_Racket?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=88xEPJIbOk&rank=1


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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40630.How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=CckKb8zO68&rank=1


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Base Nation: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22320467-base-nation?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=9p1Bz89Wbf&rank=1



Saint Basil the Great (330–379 AD):


Fling wide your doors; give your wealth free passage everywhere! As a great river flows by a thousand channels through fertile country, so let your wealth run through many conduits to the homes of the poor. Wells that are drawn from flow the better; left unused, they go foul…Money kept standing idle is worthless; but moving and changing hands it benefits the community and brings increase…


“I am wronging no one,” you say, “I am merely holding on to what is mine.” What is yours! Who gave it to you so that you could bring it into life with you? Why, you are like a man who pinches a seat at the theater at the expense of latecomers, claiming ownership of what was for common use. That’s what the rich are like; having seized what belongs to all, they claim it as their own on the basis of having got there first. Whereas if everyone took for himself enough to meet his immediate needs and released the rest for those in need of it, there would be no rich and no poor.


Did you not come naked out of the womb? Will you not go naked back into the earth? (Job 1) So where did the wealth you now enjoy come from? If you say “from nowhere,” you deny God, ignore the Creator, are ungrateful to the Giver. If you say “from God,” then explain why it was given to you.


When a man strips another of his clothes, he is called a thief. Should not a man who has the power to clothe the naked but does not do so be called the same? The bread in your larder belongs to the hungry. The cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked. The shoes you allow to rot belong to the barefoot. The money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. You do injustice to every man whom you could help but do not.


If you are rich, how can you remain so? If you cared for the poor, it would consume your wealth. When each one receives a little for one’s needs, and when all owners distribute their means simultaneously for the care of the needy, no one will possess more than his neighbor.


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