Global Capitalism: Savior or Satan?

What is a faithful follower of a homeless rabbi to do in the face of Global Capitalism?

Well most of us simply embrace this earthly kingdom with arms wide open while we can only imagine of a better place to go after we die, but I don’t think that quite answers our own question of what would Jesus do.

Some of us after seeing the light (or darkness as in the case with GC) go around preaching the evils of a system that gives 80% of the resources in God’s creation to only 20% of God’s children. (By the way for those of us that can only imagine let’s hope JC was wrong about the sheep and the goats.)

But as much as it would be easy to say GC is the all-good savior of the world or that it is the all-evil incarnation of Satan himself, the truth of the matter is probably somewhere in-between. (Although theologically and biblically the Satanic label is much more accurate.)

There are programs like Bono’s Project (Red) that attempt to redeem the seemingly unstoppable force that is capitalism by diverting 10 or 15% to help those in need but while I support this effort it does not go nearly far enough to stem the tide.

Maybe the homeless rabbi was right when he told his followers we couldn’t serve God and money. It’s just that none of us believe him.