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Antonin Scalia: Capitalism Requires 'Traditional Christian Virtues' to Succeed

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StephenMeansMe9/09/2013 11:20:09 am PDT

I don’t think Scalia’s that wrong, he just wrongly thinks the virtues are specifically Christian. After all, Adam Smith also wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and capitalism works best if everyone’s honest and somewhat temperate.

The irony, of course, is that most Christian cheerleading for capitalism comes from prosperity-gospel type stuff. Highly un-Christian, and destructive to capitalism itself. Nobody likes a plutocrat.