Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology?
Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology?
I wonder why religious conservatives are mostly synonymous with capitalism supporters ? I mean arent most religions inherently socialistic ? What makes conservatives support capitalism , despite not being among the rich?
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Because it's remarkably similar in form:
"each one takes care of himself and god takes care of all"
Vs
"Everybody pursues their own gain and the market takes care of everything"
PS: "the lord works in mysterious ways" Vs "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1999/03/the-market-as-god/306397/
Market takes care of is a liberatarian myth !
I know, but when you said religious conservative, I immediately assumed American and economically conservative, but there are plenty of Christian social democrats in Europe.
I think I may have misunderstood your question: which ideology did you expect religious conservatives to support? And, where/when? Maybe they could be socialists, because the new testament encourages generosity. Or maybe they could be really conservative and rabidly monarchist, imperialist like in the past. Maybe it does not matter and they just "support" what there is in their country at the time or it doesn't matter where religion is separate from the state.