Religion and Politics

Is Wall Street Meeting God’s Expectations?

At The Wall Street Journal, David Weidner asks, “What if God was an analyst?” Weidner finds that the Christian Bible verse, Matthew 25:14-30 (known colloquially as “the Parable of Bags of Gold”), seems, at first blush, to endorse capitalism: “You don’t have to sing in the Sunday choir to get the drift. The message is that God wants us to do something with what we have. He wants us to prosper, multiply and take a little risk.” Yet there is one problem, writes Weidner. Jesus’ message in Matthew isn’t really about making money, but about multiplying good. 

Read at The Wall Street Journal

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