Capitalistic Christianity

I want this blog to be something on which I can discuss both religion and politics, and for that reason I will start out with a post which touches on both.

Let’s just start this whole thing off right, with the primary premise of the post:

Our Lord is a Capitalist.

“How can I say that?” You ask. Isn’t capitalism the exploitation of those less able to care for themselves? Isn’t the whole idea behind capitalism trying to beat other people?

Well it’s all very simple: God has used Capitalism to keep our church in check. From the very beginning, there was disagreement in the church. Take Paul, for example. A lot of other Christians held to their beliefs that Jews should not eat with gentiles, etc, and Paul said otherwise. Which side won out? Paul did. And then Paul’s philosophy was the only one, and with that monopoly over Christianity Paul’s philosophy became Paul’s philosophy in name only, as the Catholic Church was born. they used their power tyrannically, burning people for "heresy" which could be as simple as wondering aloud whether the bread really turned into Christ’s flesh, or something as grievous as being of any other religion. So what happened? People felt like the product they received (the Catholic Church) was not the product they paid for (Jesus, closeness to god). Protestantism became a new shiny business which people flocked to because they received the product they were looking for, despite the fact that for many years the price could be very expensive (as high as your life itself) and with that business Protestantism grew to rival the catholic church. This was the beginning of the Catholic Church’s movement back to Jesus, which I don’t feel they have completely achieved yet (this is something that Catholics will disagree with, but pass over it as it is not the point of the post) but they are not heir way because of competition.

Then what happened?

Protestantism moved west, to America. There it had no competition because churches made communities and communities were too out of reach from one another, and like the Catholic Church Protestantism monopolized and began to mistreat people. Hence the witch burnings, and mistreatment of heretics. when things began to connect a little bit more and churches came in contact with other churches, they had to improve the product by reducing themselves back to god's intent for churches, and loving people, so that they wouldn’t lose members to those who were doing a better job and leading people closer to Jesus. As the number of denominations expanded and came in contact with each other, this phenomenon began to grow. Then they began to solidify, and we got the hypocritical churches of the day which I believe became similar through McCarthyism and the red scare. But never fear, capitalism is at work and a new set of churches is on the rise. I don’t want to say they are being squashed, Protestantism is too fragmented for organized prevention or even ability to notice such a thing, but in every denomination churches are rising up to bear the mantle of closeness to god, to provide us, the consumer, with the product we have been trying to achieve, closeness to god. In 20 years we will have another time of closeness, and following the cycle we will hit another monopolization, which god will again use capitalistic principles to break down so that he can be with us.