The following is Blog number forty-seven and is part of our ongoing Racial Reconciliation in America Series. It is entitled: The Root Cause of our Divisions – The Church of America – Part Four Capitalism and the Church.

RACIAL RECONCILIATION

The Root Cause of Our Divisions

The Church of America – Part Four

Capitalism and the Church

“And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.” (Book of Acts Chapter 4 verse 32 : KJV)

[The following is taken from the book BECOME PERFECT 2007©]

"Capitalism is an economic system in which we have successfully participated and endorse. This is an economic system not a governing activity or philosophy of the communal whole; for Capitalism is about the individual. Capitalism is rooted in the exercise of resource competitiveness. While it demands, a “survival of the fittest” methodology. That is what puts Capitalism at variance with the Christian Faith. For in the Faith “making a profit” is not the principal goal. When Capitalism spills over into the psyche of man it causes a nature of individualism so profound that folk are always seeking to profit from all things including relationships. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence comes from this thought. Profit!

Capitalism, is, very prone to oligarchy: which is the control of government and society, by the wealthy few rather than by one person one vote of the many. Oligarchy is a class system where the distribution of resources is anything but equal. Capitalism as an individualistic economic based system should be expected to be one that is ruled by: conquest, control, and the amassing of resources.

He who has control of resources, controls the social construct; particularly, that of law, justice and the social order. The very nature of Capitalism is one focused on the individual and self-reliance, rather than on community.

Not all Oligarchs are unworthy; for in the early years of our industrial era in America we produced some extraordinary human beings! Great Capitalist: such as the first Rockefeller, who was for certain an Oligarch; he also built communities while making a great deal of capital. He also built church houses!

He was incredibly special and from an era, certainly different than today, it would seem! Rockefeller invested in the making of things; today, in America we make very few things that can be touched. It is hard to touch capital! Yet, capital is absolutely made!

The very nature of being a Capitalist is: to make your money using other people’s resources, i.e., their sweat, ideas, money and will. However, We contend that, this can only happen if one possesses an extraordinary gift that is rooted in vision and creative power. Though many might say of some Capitalists, that they don’t make anything, posing this as a negative, to this we say maybe, maybe not.

For, they certainly do make something and it is called money; on this plantation it is capital that rules societies. By controlling, dominating, or strongly influencing the individual human will, capitalists are able to get more than what they pay for, which is the strategy of profit making. The goal is to ensure that with every dollar one spends: significantly more than a dollar comes back. Even better it is to make a dollar without even letting go of a dollar.

This is called: “good business” and it works if your only goal is making a profit! We are not talking about earned income, in the sense that an individual worker earns a paycheck; it is rather, money that comes from investing, in the sweat of workers, who then, make money for the capitalist and themselves. Therefore, such money of the capitalist is known as: “unearned income,” because it comes from their return on the investments that they have made. Not from their labor in the factory or the fields!

In America today the unfairness is in a tax code that makes the income of the Capitalist more important; thus treated differently than the hard laborer in the fields and the factory. The Capitalist is taxed less by rate and as such the Government coffers are laid bare; as the rich get richer, while the value of the field hands dollar is worth less. Wars go unpaid for and the debt grows! As this book is being written that is the state of America. There is no money coming in from the wealthy and wars are being fought with debt that will end up being paid for by the regular folk. Our streets airports and school houses crumble while our soldiers are dying in nation building efforts overseas. Scandalous!

Resource allocation is what defines the values of a society as it relates to freedoms of the individual. What different forms of government and economic systems have, as interesting discovery, is the degree to which they do or do not allow the Lord God to be worshiped. Some allow it and some do not, freely, allow it!

We contend, that the actual reason that communism and socialism are failed systems, is because they are typically atheistic, or they prevent the free and open worship of Jesus Christ. And this is what enables the government to control thought and freewill of the proletariat, the people! It is easier to govern a people ignorant of total freedom, which is what Christ offers.

Had the Soviet Union exercised, across all dominions, Christianity as openly, aggressively and pervasively as existed in the United States it would, likely, be in existence, as a whole group of territories to this very day! Rather, than being split into a variety of independent nations.

We contend that as the Christian Faith is allowed to flourish in any nation, that nation will fare well and better than most. Systems come and go but God is ever present. If China continues on the path of becoming a Christian nation, China will become the most powerful nation on this plantation; China is on track to become just that."