Paul Krugman offers up his own Bah! Humbug!
Paul Krugman pointed out the nearly radical leftist implications of Dickens "A Christmas Carol" in his recent Op-Ed in the New York Times - The Humbug Express .
Truth be told - anyone looking closely at New Testament scripture would be forced to acknowledge that Jesus was no capitalist - and even if had leanings in that direction - his philosophy and teachings would have thrown him pell-mell against the religious and economic doctrine of the far right.
Calvinist Doctrine vs the Gospels of Jesus
This is certainly ironic - given that the right is far more likely to intone quote biblical verse and site scriptural justification for what they want to do. This seeming incongruity has its origins in Calvinist theology that somehow managed to reconcile man's search for greater wealth with Christ's vow of poverty by stating that if you were wealthy than you had earned God's grace. This brand of twisted Christianity flew in the face (and flatly ignored) such scriptural passages as "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of heaven."
I'm not trying to dwell on the trivial - but I'm just say'in - perhaps this Christmas we should re-evaluate the extremes to which Calvinist theology has taken us. When conservatism becomes so conservative that it morphs into a right-wing version of radicalism - it's time to re-evaluate…
Stephen Colbert and Paul Krugman - on the same page...
If you don't want to read Paul Krugman, Stephen Colbert also does this very well…
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