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9 comments to "Supply Side Jesus"
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Ian Wasp
December 3rd, 2007 at
7:54 am
Wealth? Greed? Anti-Christian. The lack of logic behind this gobbly gook boggles. This is a thesis–if you can even call it that–what was apparently concocted by by an ill-informed child. Run along junior. Your mother is calling you.
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Darel
December 3rd, 2007 at
9:52 am
Indeed. Your “gobbly gook” argument is compelling. I was especially fascinated by the way you simultaneously question the author’s mentality and maturity by asserting that he should run home to his mother. A clever move sir.
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DRukus
December 3rd, 2007 at
9:56 am
Christianity isn’t as much about feeding the poor as it is being the poor.
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just a guy
December 3rd, 2007 at
10:58 am
I don’t even know what ’supply side’ means! I guess I could look it up, but… I guess I’m too busy enjoying all the other wonderful neatorama entries!
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Steohawk
December 3rd, 2007 at
1:48 pm
This article makes the assumption that greed and capitalism are connected, but one could say the same thing about ANY economic system. As an adherent to the Austrian school of economics, I believe that TRUE capitalism emphasizes freedom, not greed. Unfortunately, there’s no true capitalism anywhere in this world. The US economy is a mixture of capitalism, socialism, and corporatism. If you try to start a business in the US, you have to get licenses from the government, endure the climb through tax brackets, and hire lawyers to make sure that you aren’t being politically incorrect, infringing on somebody’s intellectual “property”, or making coffee too hot. Meanwhile, the government is handing out corporate welfare to your competitors, buying their products with tax money (some of it comes from you), and running the courts where you’ll eventually get sued for infringing on their intellectual “property”. So, what would Jesus do? He’d be a TRUE capitalist!
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Siduri
December 3rd, 2007 at
4:09 pm
Um… you may be missing the fact that the original Supply Side Jesus was satyrical, and ended with the actual Jesus Christ being killed.
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Alex Fear
December 3rd, 2007 at
7:29 pm
That.. was the most excellent example I have seen yet of the problem with political wing of the Religious right Wrong and the “God helps those who help themselves” work ethic.
It’s about time someone challenged accepted wisdom.
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Steohawk
December 3rd, 2007 at
7:45 pm
I’m most perturbed by the single phrase, “it is only greed which creates wealth”. That’s typical Marxist thinking. Besides, if the whole point of the article is to illustrate how you need to be wealthy to give to charity, then the above comment is self-refuting.
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Jezebel
December 3rd, 2007 at
9:50 pm
Absolutely brilliant. I’m torn between calling this the most brilliant example of capitalist propaganda I’ve ever seen, or the most brilliant satire I’ve ever seen. Thank you for finding all of this wonderful stuff for us, Neatorama! Very Neat.
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