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Jesus Was Not a Marxist
By The Reverend Dr. Justin E. Crisp, St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Greenwich, CT - Posted on Nov. 15, 2024
Jesus Was Not a Marxist
I was reminded recently of the old MasterCard commercials—the ones that conclude, “There are some things in this world money can’t buy. For everything else there’s MasterCard.” One of my favorites features a dad and his son going to a baseball game. The voiceover says, “2 tickets: $28. 2 hot dogs, 2 popcorns, 2 sodas: $18. One autographed baseball: $45. Real conversation with eleven-year-old son: priceless.”

Those commercials were fantastic. They spoke to something true. There really are some things that money can’t buy, and the commercials always suggested it’s those things that make life worthwhile. Money at its best serves the priceless thing, makes it possible, but money isn’t the thing itself.

It’s a valuable lesson, one which Jesus tries to get across to his disciples in Mark 10:17-27—a passage famous for the zinger, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God” (Mark 10:23). The story begins with Jesus meeting a rich man...

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The Real Economic Catastrophe Will Be Caused by the U.S. Debt
By Brian Riedl, Sr. Fellow - Manhattan Inst., Aug 6, 2024 - Post on Aug. 15, 2024
The Real Economic Catastrophe Will Be Caused by the U.S. Debt
The U.S. is headed for "the most predictable economic crisis in history," as Eskine Bowles, Bill Clinton's former White House chief of staff, once put it.

Why? Because of the mountain of federal debt that we keep making bigger.

For the first time since the late 1940s, U.S. debt is roughly equal to U.S. GDP.

We already spend more on interest on the debt than we do on Medicaid and defense.

● Read in Reason Magazine
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