Christian Capitalism

One of the difficulties I had throughout this disappointing election period is that often it seemed the the conservative position seemed to gravitate towards an almost Ayn Rand formulation for the economy, which the liberal position loved to attack as such.  While not really going to that clear of a formulation of free market ideals, they nonetheless spoke of balanced budgets, responsibility and freedom as paramount virtues with other considerations seemingly a sidenote.  To which the other side, devoid largely of economic sense, countered by painting them as soul-less economic ideologues disconnected from sympathy to people doing poorly.  Whatever the likelihood that the conservative position was far better for the economy, I had to think the following:

We live in a sinful world.  For the liberal position, government being the principle centerpiece for charitable and comfort work is a destructive sham, encouraging corruption, waste, entitlement and an erosion of work and creative ethics.  Government stepping into popular morality has only hastened our ugly spiral downward.  For the conservative side, despite the support of many religious, "greed is good" is not a virtue even if it gets the economy going.  Phrase it as you want, it is never much of a rallying cry.

Only the Judeo-Christian worldview properly juxtaposes "those who do not work don't eat" with "love your neighbor as yourself".  Capitalism is by far the most efficient and rewarding system for economic resource distribution, but devoid of a morality that cannot be supplied by legislation, is as empty as it was attacked to be.  Christians, whose first thought is that they are stewards of God's resources, humbled by their own debt to God as sinners and his grace, alone are equipped by God to make the most of what they have and upbuild a society.  In this society, men are free to create wealth, a tide lifting all boats, but they as individuals rush headlong to charitable concerns beholden to no government but their God.  All other roads lead to ruin and the moral bankruptcy that is our system on both sides of the aisle.

The problem with Washington isn't the party -- it's that there are too few people who serve the Living God and hold His perspective on the value and purpose of a life.