Christianity - in a world where the most brilliant minds have collectively accepted that we know very little about how anything operates, from physics to consciousness and everything in between, Christianity is a religion in which many of the least educated people on the planet claim to understand with near perfect clarity an infinite intelligence that exists wholly outside of the material reality we know almost nothing about, and think that anyone who doubts their claims to know the desires of such an intelligence deserve nothing less than eternal torments for daring to doubt, not so much that intelligence, but any mere humans claim to understand it far better than they know themselves.
Capitalism is a religion. That's all it is. It is thought of as simply a way of organizing and running your economy, but it can only ever end up killing the "unchosen."And the "chosen" are the ones who were given great wealth, by God, or course. And they, like Abraham, are only too happy to sacrifice a world of Isaacs, if that is what their God of money commands. Look at the EpiPen ad AIDS medication controversy, when Mylan raised the price over 500% and Martin Shkreli jacked up the prices of AIDS meds, just because they could, not because they needed to make bigger profits. And look at the 70 fold price increase on a drug treatment for Muscular Dystrophy, charging $89,000.00 per year. For Spinal Muscular atrophy, they charge $750,000 for first year and $300K thereafter. In this way, capitalism sells long life the way the Catholic Church once sold salvation through indulgences. Both are highly respected and adored by the other, despite Jesus overturning the ...
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