Why Atheism will Replace Religion, and Why Capitalism Cares [View All]

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Here's a question that's bugged me for years: why aren't all Christians strong socialists? As Carl Gibson at HuffPost wrote the other day:

Christians would do well to vote for those who actually practice what they preach. While Perry and Paul demand cuts to public programs and health care for the uninsured, President Obama is finding his inner Luke and asking the richest Americans to share their possessions to help lessen the burden of deficit reduction already on the shoulders of working families.

If Jesus demanded a socialistic approach to helping the poor, then why are evangelical Christians almost universally against socialized medicine, unemployment insurance and a decent Social Security system?

Because it's bad for religion, that's why.

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Religion hates socialism because it's bad for religion.

If you combine Barber's findings with a study of memetic evolution (how ideas evolve and survive as they're passed through society and down through history) the answer is clear. Religions that support socialism make people feel secure, which in turn makes them lose faith. In the "survival of the fittest" world of evolving religions, the branches of Christianity that don't follow Jesus' teachings about helping the poor are the "fittest."

http://religionvirus.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-atheism-will-replace-religion-and.html