Perhaps "clirus" needs to familiarize herself with the title of her own thread - she just didn't contend that capitalism "is better" than socialism - she makes a value judgment and concludes that socialism is morally "evil!"I have never said Capitalism is perfect, but rather that Capitalism is better than Socialism.
Capitalism creates unequal prosperity, but Socialism creates equal poverty.
Just because a person attains wealth through Capitalism does not give Socialists a right to steal from the person that has attained wealth in an honest manner.
Are you trying to imply Gates and Buffet got their wealth in an illegal manner? I have not been able to understand what you are trying to prove with the discussion of Gate, Buffet and others.
Are you trying to say Gates and Buffet are better than Christians, because Gates and Buffet give away their wealth, even though there is no evidence Gates and Buffet have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord/Savior and committed to following the commandments/doctrines of the Bible. If Gates and Buffet think they are buying there way into Heaven that would be really disappointing.
Once you cross the line from "better" to "evil" by labelling socialism a "sin" ( by definition "evil" is morally indistinguishable from "sin") you've now introduced religion - in this case "the commandments/doctrines of the Bible."
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are relevant because they are the world's most successful practicioners of an economic system whose underlying principles, according to "clirus," are morally superior to all the rest - based on the "commandments/doctrines of the Bible."
The only problem with this "endorsement" is that these "high priests" of capitalism (Gates, Buffett), the system that clirus would have us believe best reflects Christian principles, are both atheists/agnostics.
Once she introduced Christianity into the equation having already equated "atheism with poverty," instead of introducing "red herrings" to divert attention, "clirus" should be prepared to explain why a disproportionate number of America's most successful capitalists are atheists/agnostics, not to mention the fact that the 3 most generous philanthropists (Gates, Buffett, Carnegie) in US history don't happen to believe in a "god."
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