"America's 'values' problem".
America's 'values' problem
By Ben Carmack | Vincennes University
An economy that thrives only with the free flow of counterfeit money printed by the government or by the banks that own the Federal Reserve will be inclined to support counterfeit morality, counterfeit marriage, counterfeit work, counterfeit education, counterfeit professionalism and counterfeit nearly everything else. In fact, the lies that we tell ourselves about money and credit are so much a part of our daily lives that separating ourselves from those lies is a monumental task.
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There's a reason why there are biblical scriptures warning that the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. It happens to be true. But it would be true even if the Bible didn't say so, but the fact that it does is a powerful confirmation of a self-evident truth.
Why, in a country with abundant resources and great wealth, do we have millions of people unemployed? And why do others do work that is beneath their dignity and that depends upon the wastefulness, vanity and sloth of others?
We of the Bible Belt, who gave George W. Bush eight years in the White House, may wish to believe that America is and ought to remain a "Christian nation" built upon traditional biblical values, but our supposedly Christian nation practices values that are decidedly not biblical and that are unalterably opposed to the God we say we believe in.
Our American values suggest that money is our god. Those who create and manage the money have the power while those who borrow the money must surrender their power. If we are truly a Christian nation, we must say that the time has come, not for more debt, but for debt forgiveness. . . Economics is fundamentally about values, and though we may say that we value our families, our friends, our work, our God and our country, our economy represents the practical working out of our values. Judging from how we discuss matters of importance among ourselves, "values" is what we say, and "economics" is what we do.
By Ben Carmack | Vincennes University
An economy that thrives only with the free flow of counterfeit money printed by the government or by the banks that own the Federal Reserve will be inclined to support counterfeit morality, counterfeit marriage, counterfeit work, counterfeit education, counterfeit professionalism and counterfeit nearly everything else. In fact, the lies that we tell ourselves about money and credit are so much a part of our daily lives that separating ourselves from those lies is a monumental task.
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There's a reason why there are biblical scriptures warning that the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. It happens to be true. But it would be true even if the Bible didn't say so, but the fact that it does is a powerful confirmation of a self-evident truth.
Why, in a country with abundant resources and great wealth, do we have millions of people unemployed? And why do others do work that is beneath their dignity and that depends upon the wastefulness, vanity and sloth of others?
We of the Bible Belt, who gave George W. Bush eight years in the White House, may wish to believe that America is and ought to remain a "Christian nation" built upon traditional biblical values, but our supposedly Christian nation practices values that are decidedly not biblical and that are unalterably opposed to the God we say we believe in.
Our American values suggest that money is our god. Those who create and manage the money have the power while those who borrow the money must surrender their power. If we are truly a Christian nation, we must say that the time has come, not for more debt, but for debt forgiveness. . . Economics is fundamentally about values, and though we may say that we value our families, our friends, our work, our God and our country, our economy represents the practical working out of our values. Judging from how we discuss matters of importance among ourselves, "values" is what we say, and "economics" is what we do.
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