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I recently saw this question asked—is competition un-Christian?—as if a negative answer was self evident. It was treated as some kind of weapon against capitalism.

...the existence of people who provide a way to acquire an income is not a reason life is hard. Without them, life would be far harder. The temptation to find fault with them is a form of the eternal attraction to scapegoat and blame visible targets for one’s troubles.

Usury is merely the rent of money. If usury is sinful, then so is rent of anything else.

...while it might be relatively simple to “make do” with less as a single individual, unmarried and childless, whose parents do not need financial help, simplicity gets complicated quickly in a world where people are supposed to provide for the well-being of others.

When Christians face economic catastrophe brought on by generations of bad decisions, how should they respond? Give up or get to work?

No one has a right to tell a stranger that he should neglect some other priority to strength train and develop his endurance. But, it is pretty obvious, as reflected in the trouble recruiting fit soldiers, that Americans are generally overfed and under-trained.

What does a tyrannical government want? It wants people to rely on it, and fear independence. It wants them to mistrust their own judgments, and instead depend on the wisdom of its “experts.”

Christians and non-Christians alike have interpreted Christian theology as a renunciation of the physical world ... Somehow the view persists that Christianity is unconcerned about earthly concerns such as the standard of living.

Corporations do evil things all the time, but they are not guilty for operating by the profit motive.

If people don’t believe that God exists and that He keeps his promises, then they will be forced to rely on gargantuan contrivances like “build back better” no matter their obvious failures and contradictions.