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Cruelty is the Point of Capitalist Christianity
4 years ago
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Once upon a time...
Why Cruelty? Because allowing someone to suffer when you have the ability to stop their suffering is cruel.
Why Capitalist? Because capitalism focuses on the free market and individual ownership. Most importantly, it means that people can do things like raise the price of life-saving drugs and be justified with "the market will self-correct" despite it taking years to make generic versions or even if the original was sold for a dollar so that people could benefit from it. Such a person is obviously not the correct type of capitalist since they put the benefit of others before making money for themselves.
Why Christianity? Because enough people who do the following say how they are "God-fearing Christians" or similar and how they go to Church and so on.
Capitalist Christianity is a variety of Christianity wherein the God worshiped is made of gold. The emphasis is that if a person has God's favor then they will naturally have many blessings and if they do not, God will punish them with poverty, disease, and so on. It allows for a myriad of things to happen, and those following it are quite willing to sacrifice a better future for themselves and their decedents so long as some group they hate suffers even more.
Under Capitalist Christianity worth and price are synonyms so that one gets things like a person "worth an estimated [insert price] And if one cannot state this then one is worthless.
Anyone suggesting that the homeless be given homes, the hungry be fed, or similar charitable thoughts is thoroughly argued against with things like "but first they'll need treatment for their drug/mental issues" or "why should they get something for free that I had to work to pay for?!" This also applies to insurances and student loans and similar because while everyone would benefit from lower costs, some groups will benefit more and this deeply disturbs the Capitalist Christian who firmly believes Everyone Has Their Place, and some groups must always be under them socially.
This can go further, even applying to children when schools will not allow them to eat a lunch, or force them to toss a lunch they took, because they cannot pay for it. People will justify this by saying children need to know the value of things or something similar. Such people will never feel the argument "but they're children and should be fed" as a good enough reason to actually feed them, instead using arguments about how them being hungry while in class is somehow a good thing or how forcing them to clean up the lunch room in front of all their classmates teaches them a good work ethic and is not at all a form of humiliation.
Why Capitalist? Because capitalism focuses on the free market and individual ownership. Most importantly, it means that people can do things like raise the price of life-saving drugs and be justified with "the market will self-correct" despite it taking years to make generic versions or even if the original was sold for a dollar so that people could benefit from it. Such a person is obviously not the correct type of capitalist since they put the benefit of others before making money for themselves.
Why Christianity? Because enough people who do the following say how they are "God-fearing Christians" or similar and how they go to Church and so on.
Capitalist Christianity is a variety of Christianity wherein the God worshiped is made of gold. The emphasis is that if a person has God's favor then they will naturally have many blessings and if they do not, God will punish them with poverty, disease, and so on. It allows for a myriad of things to happen, and those following it are quite willing to sacrifice a better future for themselves and their decedents so long as some group they hate suffers even more.
Under Capitalist Christianity worth and price are synonyms so that one gets things like a person "worth an estimated [insert price] And if one cannot state this then one is worthless.
Anyone suggesting that the homeless be given homes, the hungry be fed, or similar charitable thoughts is thoroughly argued against with things like "but first they'll need treatment for their drug/mental issues" or "why should they get something for free that I had to work to pay for?!" This also applies to insurances and student loans and similar because while everyone would benefit from lower costs, some groups will benefit more and this deeply disturbs the Capitalist Christian who firmly believes Everyone Has Their Place, and some groups must always be under them socially.
This can go further, even applying to children when schools will not allow them to eat a lunch, or force them to toss a lunch they took, because they cannot pay for it. People will justify this by saying children need to know the value of things or something similar. Such people will never feel the argument "but they're children and should be fed" as a good enough reason to actually feed them, instead using arguments about how them being hungry while in class is somehow a good thing or how forcing them to clean up the lunch room in front of all their classmates teaches them a good work ethic and is not at all a form of humiliation.
