President Obama just drew the economic battlelines more clearly in his call to raise $1.5 trillion in new revenue primarily through increased taxes on the wealthy, letting the Bush tax cuts expire, and closing tax loopholes.
Class warfare! countered the Republicans.
Americans sharing more equally in the burden of pulling our country out of massive debt, and using tax revenue to stimulate the economy and create jobs isnt class warfare, its actually Christianity.
Many Christians are starting to find the increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a few very rich people to be an enormous moral and ethical problem. Catholic theologians and ethicists took pains recently to challenge Speaker Boehner on Catholic values in regard to his views, particularly on the economy.
But not all Christians agree with those perspectives. Today, not only is economics a political battleground, it is a faith battleground particularly in Christianity. According to some Christian conservatives, unregulated capitalism, with all its inherent inequalities of wealth, is Gods plan.
Christian Captialism in their view, isnt an oxymoron, its Gods will as revealed in the Bible. God wants you to own property and make money, and if some make a lot more money than others, thats okay. In fact, its Gods will too.
These competing views are very influential in our current public debates. The Christian conservative viewpoint, however, has been more instrumental in shaping our political shift to the right in recent years, not only on social issues, but also on economic issues. You can see this display in the God Hates Taxes signs carried at Tea Party rallies.
Let me be clear as I can be. We need to understand the so-called Christian underpinnings of the anti-tax, anti-government, anti-the-poor, let him die approach to economics and public policy today as completely un-Christian, as well as un-American. What we need to do is re-establish our national values of fairness, equality and opportunity for all, values that I believe are actually the core of the Christian faith, (as well as of other religious traditions and of humanist values).
It’s not ‘class warfare,’ it’s Christianity - - The Washington Post
Class warfare! countered the Republicans.
Americans sharing more equally in the burden of pulling our country out of massive debt, and using tax revenue to stimulate the economy and create jobs isnt class warfare, its actually Christianity.
Many Christians are starting to find the increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a few very rich people to be an enormous moral and ethical problem. Catholic theologians and ethicists took pains recently to challenge Speaker Boehner on Catholic values in regard to his views, particularly on the economy.
But not all Christians agree with those perspectives. Today, not only is economics a political battleground, it is a faith battleground particularly in Christianity. According to some Christian conservatives, unregulated capitalism, with all its inherent inequalities of wealth, is Gods plan.
Christian Captialism in their view, isnt an oxymoron, its Gods will as revealed in the Bible. God wants you to own property and make money, and if some make a lot more money than others, thats okay. In fact, its Gods will too.
These competing views are very influential in our current public debates. The Christian conservative viewpoint, however, has been more instrumental in shaping our political shift to the right in recent years, not only on social issues, but also on economic issues. You can see this display in the God Hates Taxes signs carried at Tea Party rallies.
Let me be clear as I can be. We need to understand the so-called Christian underpinnings of the anti-tax, anti-government, anti-the-poor, let him die approach to economics and public policy today as completely un-Christian, as well as un-American. What we need to do is re-establish our national values of fairness, equality and opportunity for all, values that I believe are actually the core of the Christian faith, (as well as of other religious traditions and of humanist values).
It’s not ‘class warfare,’ it’s Christianity - - The Washington Post