Comments on: Michael Moore, Capitalism & Christianity

By: Dan Scoggins

Dan Scoggins — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:24:15 +0000

I agree in principle with Michael Moore.

Jesus would not have encouraged such inequality in resources. Jesus turned over the money changers tables in the temple since it was to be a house of prayer. He critiziced the Pharasees for taking widow’s homes and offering long prayers as a pretense for their greed. Jesus disciples in Acts 4 and 5, held everything in common. Jesus did not have a house, or even a place to lay his head so he would not have been much of a capitalist. He was too busy loving people and building God’s kingdom to build wealth.

American’s wealthy, who are given so much and give so little to others, do not have much opportunity to participate in the kingdom of God in their own lives. Jesus would not have encouraged that. He may have told them to give all that they can to the poor, so they may have riches in heaven.

Even if we don’t like it, we need to see Jesus for the radical lover of people that he was. He spoke the truth in love to many powerful people. If Jesus were here today, I am sure he would take our economic system to task for its treatment of the poor.

By: mattsummers

mattsummers — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:19:10 +0000

Seeking Disciple: I totally agree about WWJD. There are numerous errors in the whole WWJD concept, not to mention the points you just made–this problem is something that Dr. Jack Cottrell calls the “Christological Fallacy.” Ah, but that’s a topic for another day/blog.

By: Seeking Disciple

Seeking Disciple — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:58:46 +0000

Sorry for the mispelled words. In a hurry!

By: Seeking Disciple

Seeking Disciple — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:58:16 +0000

I agree with the comment above by Darren that Moore’s hypocrisy over capitalism is too much to bear and so no one takes Moore serious since he is using captialism to make money through a movie attacking capitalism.

However, I think we must be careful about bring Jesus into political debates. Jesus didn’t drive a car. Jesus didn’t watch television. Jesus didn’t fly in airplanes nor take vacations to the mountains. Jesus didn’t stay in hotels. Etc. To ask “What would Jesus do?” concerning capitalism or socialism or other isms misses the point of what He did come to do and that was salvation (Mark 10:45). Regeneration is the issue (John 3:3-7; Titus 3:1-7). The world needs to hear Jesus’ opinion about their sins before they try to find out what He said about socialism (Luke 13:1-5).

By: darren

darren — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:54:43 +0000

For someone as opposed to capitalism as Michael Moore claims to be, he sure has benefited quite well from the system. Granted his income depends upon him being him. If he were to ever report everything objectively and factually, he would probably be out of a job! Though he does bring about several though provoking topics and intermixed with all his hype are also valid points. Obviously Jesus was neither a socialist or capitalist. He could drive out money changers from a temple, but have one of his closest followers be a tax collector. Jesus transcends all barriers. Capitalism and Communism both have their pluses and minuses (as most things in life do). I think the real contrast is in two ‘G’ words. God and greed. Either system focused on God could accomplish amazing things. Either one focused on man’s greed can be destructive (e.g. the Soviet Union and the mindset of the 1980s Wall Street….”greed is good”). So perhaps if Michael Moore were truly concerned about the spiritual/religious ramifications of any economic system, he would have focused on the evil of greed and the good of God’s love……but what fun would that be?