Are being a money-grubbing capitalist and a Christian compatible?

In all seriousness if you're not a good Capitalist you're not Christian.

The Parable of the Talents
14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants[a] and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents,[b] to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. 19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.[c] You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

The issue then becomes, what do we do when the powerful show time and again that they will not use their power to ensure that everyone is cared for, because it is not nor ever would be in their own economic interest to do so as it conflicts with the profit motive that capitalism has lauded as one of it's best aspects and one of the reasons it theoretically works so well.

This thread belongs on the christ/pol/ sticky. Paging mods.

This parable is comparing banking to thievery.

No
Sure

>muh capitalist means money grubbing greedy jewporky like behavior
epin meme my dude, I too don't enjoy executing contracts with other human beings and want a king to rule over us with impunity
I love being a slave

lol Zig Forums bait belongs in the /christpol/ thread. Political ideologies are Babylonian Myths ment to elevate our selves over our full submission to God.

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Tbh, this is the major evil in our modern era. Im saving the pic. Thank you, but still sageing

hence "money-grubbing".

You cannot be a good capitalist and a good Christian simultaneously. So, no.

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Jesus wants us to be capitalists.

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You don't really think that parable was about the money, do you? It was about the servant being unwilling to do the work his master commanded of him because he thought him to be unjust. You're supposed to look for the truth hidden within the parables, not just read them and take them at face value. If that were the case, there are a lot of parables denouncing farmers who are bad at their jobs.

nederlands: hei italie, wat is dat er?
italie: non so.

it is first about intentie?

we must suffer en honger! kristbol gang! earl of grae! everyone get shot and starve!

why?

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What does it mean to be a good capitalist?

prime capitalist attitude. seeing your fellow man as resources to enrich yourself.
nobody said anything about this. the projection is palpable

What the fugg are you even trying to say in both Dutch and Italian?

You can't love money. You can't be a slave to money.

But if by being a "money-grubbing capitalist" you simply mean someone who supports capitalism, then yes, you can very easily be both. In fact, I find it hard to see how you could be a Christian and not also be a capitalist.

Economics are just about allocation of scarce resources. Capitalism is the best way to allocate resources and it does so through voluntary transactions.

Even the poor in capitalist societies are better off. I have zero desire to be rich. But I know that I have the best chance to raise a family in a capitalist society. I just want to live. And the alternatives aren't conducive to that.

Is being a materialist, class-obsessed communist and a Christian compatible?

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To be a good capitalist at least in today's society of consumerism, is to be wholly amoral. Being willing to do whatever it takes to take as much of the pie for yourself as you can. Now that doesn't make me a socialist, but I don't think you can blame me for being so weary of pro capitalist/consumerist Christians. Especially when they almost always are low church Prots.