Essay 40 - 2024. Christianity and Capitalism. The Bible (Esp. The Gospels) Throughout Capitalism. By: Mr. George D. Patnoe. October 4, 2024.

Essay 40 - 2024. Christianity and Capitalism.

The Bible (Esp. The Gospels) Throughout Capitalism.

By: Mr. George D. Patnoe.

October 4, 2024.

Whoever thought those two words, Christianity and Capitalism would be used in the same sentence?

Not me! But I am writing an essay a week, so I gave it a shot. I hope you enjoy it. It is good. I think!

Both Capitalism and the religion Christianity have their own histories, both in Great Britain and in America. That is for sure. Maybe around the globe in some places.

Somehow, the Christian Bible has been around for about two thousand years, depending on how you view the history of the Bible. Capitalism is not so. But the concept of economic systems has been around for a very long too, depending on how you define an economic system.

“The central tenet of Christianity is the belief in Jesus as the Son of God and the Messiah (Christ). Christians believe that Jesus, as the Messiah, was anointed by God as the savior of humanity and hold that Jesus's coming was the fulfillment of messianic prophecies of the Old Testament.” (Taken off the web.)

“Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion, professing that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead and is the Son of God, whose coming as the Messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible and chronicled in the New Testament.” (Taken off the web.)

“Christianity was introduced to the Americas during European settlement beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries.” (Taken off the web.)

I would like to state that the Christian religion is more than simply believing in the human male named Jesus and the four Gospels. The Christian religion usually takes into account the whole Bible even if most literal interruptions are completely wrong from a historical standpoint.

First, as many of my dear readers should have realized by now, as per my essays, the truth is that the human man Jesus is not going to return to Earth at any time in the future, or ever again.

Second, the concept of a world Messiah started within the Jewish religion because the Jews wanted a Messiah from the Roman Empire. Since the Roman Empire is long gone, so too should the religious delusional belief that the current world needs a Jesus Messiah to save the world, but the world should use a world and global Messiah to save the human species from its own current and future self-destruction.

Third, the concept of the end of the world started before the time of Jesus and there are a lot of people stating that the end of the world was going to happen soon; soon being about 2000 years ago, which obviously has not happened, and it is never going to happen unless something a like nuclear war takes place any time in the future.

If a nuclear war ever takes place, there will probably be not one human being still alive except those people who have escaped in time in nuclear bomb shelters.

Good luck to those people who will probably never see the light of day ever again during their lifetimes. Personally, if I hear on the news that nuclear bombs are in the sky I am going to my refrigerator and getting a nice cold beer to kiss this world goodbye for good.

“What is capitalism in simple terms?

“An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.”

“An economic system in which resources and means of production are privately owned and prices, production, and the distribution of goods are determined mainly by competition in a free market.” (Taken off the web.)

How can a religion termed Christianity and an economic system that deals with the freedom to create, make, sell, and buy goods and services be connected, you may be wondering?

Well, I would start to answer that question by stating the obvious fact that the Bible and Christianity have been around for a very long time.

Second, there have been economic systems around for a very long time too, even if they were not like the current economic systems in America and around the globe.

Currently and since the beginning of the creation of the nation termed America, the Bible and the concept of money have been a part of America’s history even if they do not always seem to be related or to go together for any apparent reason.

But if the main religion termed Christianity and the economic system termed capitalism go hand-in-hand as America’s main religion and economic system since the beginning of America’s creation, are they not connected somehow even if they are not related?

This is especially true if the whole Bible is considered as the main religious book in America even if it has nothing to do with the economic system termed capitalism.

Even so, the underlying religion in America’s capitalistic economic system is Christianity.

If people were using the Bible as a guide to life and living while they were working at their human jobs for decades and centuries in America, isn’t if fair to state that the Christian religion or at least the Bible went hand-in-hand for most Americans for a very long time during the history of America?

Even if currently, the majority of American citizens do not read, nor care to read the Christian Bible, or practice the religion Christianity in its literal and very strict forms of religious beliefs. Of course, nobody can ever know who and how many Americans read the Bible and believe in the strict form of Christianity.

But it might seem that more and more people watch porn, sports, Netflix, the news, politics, etc. than they care about that very old religious book, the Bible.

Me? I am not into sports, porn, or the news, although the politics in the news is semi-interesting because of the election year simply because Trump will help America whereas Harris will hurt America, so I hope Trump wins even if he is a jerk sometimes.

I do read the Bible, but it is more like very slowly and carefully studying and researching it. Especially as a history book.

People may work six days a week to earn a paycheck, but they used to go to a Christian church once a week. The current number of people going to a Christian church have been lower in recent times, but that is not the point here. There are still Americans who attend church regularly.

I am assuming that the religion termed Christianity makes Christian Americans good and honest people, even if it is not written in a Christian stone tablet that American employees or CEOs should be good and honest people at the job site. Honest pay for an honest day’s work.

But generally, it could be assumed that at least in the old days, when people worked with their hands in factories more than they do now is my educated guess, a lot of people visited a Christian church once a week to worship some sense of God, even if that worship was not up to my standards of Christian spiritual worship as in, “the spirit and in truth” sort of worship.

I think it is safe to state that America was built partly anyway on three important concepts, one being religious, one being economic, and the other political.

Of course, America was built on a different political system compared to the mother country England or Great Britain where there was a king, but I think that it would be safe to state that there were many Bibles carrying newcomers to the new world where the American Indians lived.

The American Indians did not know anything about the Bible or Christianity until the white men arrived to claim the land of America for themselves.

The American Indians had their own sense of spiritual worship, like worshiping the Great Spirit in the Sky sort of worship, along with the spirits in the afterlife.

“Some Native Americans dislike the beliefs of Christianity because of the history between natives and European Christian groups. Missionaries' attempts to alter or remove aspects of American Natives' heritage and culture have left many unable to reconcile with Christianity.” (Taken off the web.)

“Why did Native Americans often convert to Christianity?

“Native American beliefs are very similar to Christianity. A lot of them converted to Christianity and kept their ceremonies and rituals. They believe that Jesus existed. They even think Jesus would have been a good Native American as he went into the wilderness to pray.” (Taken off the web.)

Some people would state that taking the Indian’s land was not the correct thing to do, while other people would claim that if it wasn’t the white people, another people would have claimed the land of America if the white people did not do it. The white people from Europe.

America is also well known to be a nation and country where there is a separation between the state or government; and the church or any religion, or so it seems.

It seems a country or a nation where there is a separation between religion and money, even if most Christian churches still need money from their members to keep their Christian churches up and running because any Christian church building needs money to pay the bills and taxes.

But is that true? Even if the word or the religious concept of the Bible or Christianity is never mentioned during business meetings, or economics and political debates or discussions, it seems that all of the different human topics relating to right and wrong are discussed one way or another way, like a lot of issues and problems mentioned in the Bible.

The whole Bible is based on people making all sorts of decisions, even if some are all myths and stories. Even in the Bible’s Gospels, there are always constant battles between what Jesus thought was the correct way to do things versus the correct way the Jewish leaders wanted them done.

Isn’t the Bible partly a religious book about the differences between human right and wrong, being a good person, and maybe even being a good person as being a good employee, or being a good boss? It is known and understood that Jesus worked, and he probably was a good worker.

Paul writes about that topic, or at least of being a good slave and a good master.

Concepts, like do not steal, can mean more than simply do not steal an apple from a store. Do not steal from your employer and do not steal from your employees by paying them lower wages for the work they do for you.

But more than that, America has this huge sense of personal freedom both in a religious sense, and also in an economic sense for an individual to be free to create, build, sell, and buy goods and services at fair market prices.

In other words, there are many instances of the concept of freedom in the Bible and throughout the history of America. People like freedom, but some people like too much freedom.

Some people do not like to obey any types of laws and rules which is why they go to jail or prison like the two-time violent convict that lives in my neighborhood. He is trying to behave now.

How about honesty? Somehow, do not lie is not part of the 10 Commandments, which may or may not be possible to do in daily life for all sorts of ethical and personal reasons.

But to have an honest economic system where there are supposedly fair and honest prices for sellers and buyers should also be part of the Christian concept of being a good person too and good economics.

I would like to point out that even though most Christians love to believe in the human male named Jesus, and even though Jesus was never a capitalist in the modern sense of the word, he did work with his hands as a carpenter to build whatever he built to sell at the fair market prices during his lifetime.

If Jesus was alive today, he might be like a lot of employees or he might own his own company. Therefore, it should be an obvious and logical fact that Jesus was living within his economic system while he lived within the Jewish religion.

The same could be stated for business owners and employees in America too.

Is the life of every human a mixture of different areas or aspects of life? Money and faith.

It might even be stated and considered that if Jesus worked with his hands as a carpenter to sell his products, he was a businessman too, when he became a preacher. That may sound strange to my dear readers but think about it. He was probably a preacher while he worked before he became famous.

I don’t want to be famous. But if I ever become famous, I want to be paid for it.

Before some people considered him a God, he was working with his hands as a Jewish carpenter who had to sell his finished goods at a fair price that the market would allow him to sell it.

“What age did Jesus stop being a carpenter?

“Christians have generally taken the statement in Mark 6:3 referring to Jesus as "Is not this the carpenter...?" (Greek: οὐχ ο τός ἐστιν ὁ τέκτων, romanized: ouch outos estin ho tektōn) as an indication that before the age of 30 Jesus had been working as a carpenter.” (Taken off the web.)

Maybe since the arrival of the Bible and Christianity in America, the working class of people who used their hands to earn an honest livable wage to have a good life in America related to Jesus in some form because if both Jesus and the American hard-working American people had something in common from a human and economic standpoint as physical labor employees, then that might have helped the common religious people to ‘like’ the man Jesus because he was considered a common Jewish preacher and normal worker too.

Of course, even if Jesus was a hard-working person, he too had to deal with the local and national economic and political systems that were operating during his lifetime. They all had to pay their taxes to the Roman Empire, like it or not, that has not changed.

As an economics professor used to state to me many times, “Only two things are certain in life. Death and taxes.” Of course, he should have stated that America’s tax system is unfair for many reasons.

This professor who obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics was very slow because he had a stroke before my classes with him. He made up for it by making us read hundreds of economic books it seemed at the time.

But that being stated just for the record, no one could or should not deny that the Christian faith has been in the background of American life since the white people’s arrival to America.

How many working people had a Bible in their hands at the beginning of America? Who knows. It doesn’t matter either because the Bible was the main book for a lot of people.

“How was Christianity brought to America?

Christianity was introduced to North America as it was colonized by Europeans beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries.” (Taken off the web.)

“The U.S. Constitution is a political document drafted by a group of people that included many persons who were either deists or little more than “cultural Christians.”

Even those who were sincere Christians were committed to the idea of separation of church and state; many of them were descended from people who had come to the New World to avoid religious persecution in Great Britain in the first place.” (Taken off the web.)

Therefore, it should be at least recognized that Christianity was a practicing religion before there was a U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or even the Civil War.

It also might be a safe bet to wager some money that America was built around many of the Christian sense of mankind’s sense of morals, ethics, laws, fairness, and even the Bible in many regards, even if there is the huge division between the church and the government.

“Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen (Muslims); and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan (Mohammedan) nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.” (Taken off the web.)

That being stated, there has always been an underlying sense or even a feeling that America is the nation of Christianity it seems to me, and probably by billions of other Americans too, along with billions of people all around the globe.

The people who wrote America’s first official documents had some religious sense within their minds when they wrote as stated below, and for other reasons.

“They contend that not only did America have a Christian Founding, but virtually all of the Founders were devout, orthodox Christians who consciously drew from their religious convictions to answer most political questions. To support their case, these writers are fond of finding religious quotations from the Founders.” (Taken off the web.)

“The way Christianity influenced the Declaration of Independence is: "by promoting the idea that people are equal." This is because Christianity using both the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible to live a worthy life, believed that every man is equal.” (Taken off the web.)

But unlike other nations who like to go to war, because they think that their god wants them to go to war, or because two nations are fighting and going to war because each of them wants to be the main source of a national god, that is not how America works.

“The United States is not a Christian Republic; it is a secular one. It was never intended by its founders to be anything else. It is perfectly fine for an American leader to conduct himself or herself according to Christian principles, but it is NOT acceptable for them to impose their interpretation of Christianity on others in the course of governance.” (Taken off the web.)

Unlike so many other nations and countries around the globe. You know who they are!

In the meantime, when all of the above was taking place, America was also starting to become a huge grand economic national, and international superpower.

It all started on the East Coast which led to Americans traveling west to meet the American Indians, the wilderness, just to see America’s wild wilderness in all of its glory, which should not be lost to capitalism for any reason.

Village after village, town after town, city after city, all being connected by the very long railroads that were built by human hands, (some might state by slave labor) America became a nation with each of those villages, towns, and cities being connected by those railroads so people could travel North to South and vice versa, East to West, and vice versa.

On those railroads, those trains were either very simple working trains for the poor people or very nice trains for the rich business people. “Some things never change, but that is the way it is.” A song with those words. Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is.

Either way, there were poor and rich people who carried a Bible with them from one coast to another coast, from one village to another village, from one town to another town, from one city to another city.

How many people were carrying a Bible with them while they traveled from East to West and from North to South and vice versa? How would I know that answer? But it happened!

In other words, the Christian Bible was being crisscrossed throughout the land of America as if the new nation was being led by a bunch of biblical messages that were meant for a people of over 2000 years ago.

I mean, how cool is that if you think about it. If they only possessed one book, it probably was the Bible, believe it or not. I bet today, there is hardly a house or home that has a Bible in it.

Me. I own so many Bibles of different translations that I don’t have time to read all of them.

How about you, my dear readers? How about you? If you don’t own a Bible, go buy one.

Whether the gospels were being preached by preachers who preached eternal heaven or a hot fury everlasting hell, somehow the Bible was still in the hands of people who read it before they went to bed at night, read it by candlelight or a logged fireplace while they were healthy or sick in bed, while they were either dying in bed or dying by a bullet or an arrow to their physical heart.

But at the same time, next to those Bibles in people’s pockets or purses or briefcases, there was also money being passed along from the East to the West, from the North to the South, and vice versa.

There was also a capitalist economic system being spread throughout the new land of America, just like there was a new political order and system that would make a lot of people better off by way of living standards.

Even today, there are a lot of black people who own houses, and cars, and who have money in their bank accounts. Some black people may bitch and complain about being slaves, but that is bull shit.

America may have had a Bible in one hand, and a gun or rifle in the other hand, but it had money in its pockets. Or gold, silver, or simply the hope of many people becoming a very rich person and of course, whether they were thinking about it or not, a very rich nation.

America and its citizens should be very proud of its way of life from the very simple, hard, and humble beginnings that started with a bunch of people on boats that traveled on the seas and oceans to life and start a new life in a completely different land mass on the other side of their home nation and towns.

When I was a kid, and even now as I become closer to becoming an old man, I am in awe of what those new Americans did from the very first step on American land to where it is today. Really, just unbelievable.

What is more unbelievable is that some current Americans like the uneducated, criminal, and even the educated and non-criminal take the American way of life for granted. So sad.

Just a special note for my dear readers, as part of an intellectual mental model, you have to understand and realize that there are different levels or ways of looking at the world.

There is what is termed the surface structure or the way an issue or topic appears on the surface with your eyeballs for example.

But then there is the sub-surface structure or the way an issue or problem appears on a deeper underlying level of an issue or problem.

On the surface of the topic of Christianity and capitalism during the development of America and its people, there were all of the Bibles, money, guns, dirt, buildings, railroads, etc.

But on a deeper level of understanding, there was a huge change in how America was going to operate, evolve, develop, and progress into the future to lead the world to become a better place in all walks of life. Of course, it happens very slowly with all sorts of hiccups along the way. But it happened anyway.

There were the Bible believers which some people might state was better than nothing at all.

There were the money believers which other people might state was better than the Bible.

And of course, there were the political revolutionaries who only lived to be separated from Great Britain for many reasons. During the Industrial Revolutions in America and Great Britain, who knows how many people were carrying and reading Bibles.

There can be no doubt that during the Industrial Revolutions in America and Great Britain at least some people owned and read the Bible to help them get through their daily and human lives.

It might be the case that most people wanted to make money to have better living conditions instead of living in slums or poor conditions. More money and better standards of living means a better human species, or so it seems from the surface structure of events.

“And there was the British Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) which brought innovative mechanization and deep social change. The process saw the invention of steam-powered machines, which were used in factories in ever-growing urban centers.” (Taken off the web.)

“5 reasons why Britain led the Industrial Revolution
Beginning in Britain around 1750, the way to industrialization was paved by:
The Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century.
Favorable financial institutes.
Advances in transportation.
A ready supply of mineral resources.
Legislation favorable to private property.
A vast colonial market.” (Taken off the web.)

“When was the Industrial Revolution in America? 18th century.

The Industrial Revolution occurred in two distinct phases, the First Industrial Revolution occurred during the later part of the 18th century through the first half of the 19th century and the Second Industrial Revolution advanced following the American Civil War.” (Taken off the web.)

So, there it started. The great economic transformation from one stage to another to make people happy so they could afford a better way of life, up to the current moment in history.

And within the great economic transformations throughout the whole human species and the globe, there it was, the book called the Bible.

And more than that. The Bible survived throughout 2000 years and more at its first stages. Can you believe that the Bible that everyone can own and read is that old? It is no wonder people state that it is the Word of God, (Not true in the literal sense, but true in the metaphysical and spiritual sense.)

How many people in how many nations own and read the Bible? Russia, Africa, China, (although they have to hide their Bibles) Mexico, etc. The one common book around the globe.

Amazing if you think about it. How one book survived being transported by ship from overseas to America by a bunch of worldly travelers who wanted to start not only a new human life, but a whole new political and economic order too, even if they did not think about it too much at that time.

The Bible is a rather large book. It has many different types of smaller books in it for people to read and study. The Old Testament is starting with the Jewish religion or Judaism.

“Judaism is one of the oldest monotheistic religions and was founded over 3500 years ago in the Middle East. Jews believe that God appointed the Jews to be his chosen people to set an example of holiness and ethical behavior to the world.” (Taken off the web.)

Back over 3500 years ago, there probably wasn’t any type of great economic transformation taking place although it has been stated that at least one of the lesser-known pyramids was built because the leader at that time only wanted to keep the people busy and created an economy where people could work physically to buy food. I am glad I wasn’t alive at that time period.

Those people or laborers could not read nor write just like most of the Jews could also not read nor write, just like most of the very early Christians after the time of Jesus could not read nor write either. And most of the people who did write were only copyists who sometimes did not know the meanings of the symbols they were copying.

When did capitalism start and why?

“Capitalism in its modern form emerged from agrarianism in England, as well as mercantilism practices by European countries between the 16th and 18th centuries. ... Adam Smith is often identified as the father of modern capitalism.” (Taken off the web.)

So then, before any great economic transformation like capitalism, there was the Bible in its various languages and forms. I own way too many translations of the Bible, but it is fun to see how different biblical translators use different words, sentences, syntax, etc. to write for everyone to read and understand.

I think one of the coolest things about the Bible is the very simple 10 laws, rules, or commandments, of behaviors in any society or within any personal action.

Just to list them for the record, they are:

“10 Commandments in order in simple terms.

1. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make idols.
3. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet.”

In today’s modern-day world, I would add a few commandments of my own. (Another essay?)

Like, don’t become addicted to porn, pot and drugs, guns, sports, gaming, fighting, your sexual organs. Etc. Why? Because none of those mental qualities have anything to do with an absolute spiritual consciousness.

“Jesus Christ summarized all of God’s laws in two great commandments. “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets” (Matthew 22:37-40).”

I don’t think people follow or obey one of those two commandments. I know that many of my neighbors hate my guts because I am infinitely smarter and more intelligent than they are, plus I don’t smoke pot and take drugs, nor am an I gay guy, nor am I obsessed with guns, gaming, fighting, or my sexual organ although my sexual organ is really good to take a pee in a bottle.

As a side remark. I was talking with my dad on the phone about 6 months before he died at the age of 91. He was a formal arm guy who raised six kids with his wife who was a nurse her whole life. So, for the fun of it, I would ask him whenever he told me had to get up to take a pee, “Why not use a pee bottle?” I could hear his thoughts wondering what drugs I was taking.

It could be stated that the first 10 Commandments are the basic rules and laws for living no matter what nation or country, city, town, or village you are living in.

Isn’t it amazing how those 10 basic Commandments were there at the beginning of America and they are still here in America? (Another essay.) Yet, there are more people in America’s prisons and jail than China and India combined.

That is a very big sign that something is fundamentally wrong in American society, or more exactly in the brains and minds of some Americans. Uneducated. Bad parents. Bad schools. Too many drugs. Too much violence no matter how you look at it. Lazy cops and court systems. Too many guns and rifles. Too many bullets. The list goes on and on and on. Something has to change.

Too much fucking, sucking, and perverted sex by too many people, hidden in the dark places of both the human brain, and mind, and in holes under the ground. Too much sexual crime. Period!

Is anyone in America even conscious of the Bible’s basic 10 Commandments?

There are so many people stealing items out of stores, and they are getting away with it because of America’s state laws, courts, police, and judges don’t care anymore about not only upholding the laws relating to protecting the stores and companies in the capitalist economic system, but they are also letting crimes who do not want to work and pay for the items that they steal.

According to the Bible and even some Christian faiths I guess and assume, there are probably Christians who may think that stealing is a sin and if you steal from a store then you are going straight to hell forever, ... according to the unspoken rule of some Christian beliefs.

That may or may not be true in reality, but what is true is that people in the year 2024 are stealing items they can’t afford because for so many reasons within America’s economic capitalistic system. The capitalistic system is not perfect, but it seems the best one to date, it is stated.

There is modern-day law libraries filled to the brim with millions of laws in every village, town, and city no matter how big or small in America and in every country and nation on the globe. There are modern-day law libraries because people need to know how to behave, and the rules within a given village, town, city, state, or nation.

Of course, today’s modern-day world is a completely different and more complex world than in the time of Moses, so there are a lot more laws, rules, regulations, etc.

Isn’t it amazing that there are so many people who do not know how to be simply good people?

There are people in America who do not take advantage of the capitalist system.

Some people illegally take advantage of America’s capitalist system even though there are huge financial law books with finance and money regulations in them, so people do not become financial criminals. But greed for money, power, and wealth doesn’t stop criminal actions.

But every day of the week, there are people in America’s capitalist financial and economic system who do not only disobey the financial rules, laws, and regulations, but there are people who plan to steal your money and everyone’s money in any way they can in the modern era of the internet.

Those people probably never read the Bible nor do they even own one. Why? Because they think that most if not all of the Bible is outdated in this modern-day era of the internet; and in this modern-day world within America’s capitalist economic and financial system.

Some people believe that the only thing important in life is money, capitalism or not.

Yet, even though the Bible and Christianity don’t have any specific financial and economic rules, laws, and regulations for how you should do your home and business finances, there is still some good advice in it for other reasons.

Even Christian religious people realize some facts that people who are obsessed with money in the financial and economic markets, along with people who have to be obsessed with their personal and home financial and economic situations are a common thing in human life.

On a human level of existence; not a spiritual realm of existence, there is a lot of stuff going on within each human life and around the whole globe too. It is almost too much at times to see everything happening in America and around the world.

Most people must feel helpless since the first people stepped off the boats on America’s shores after they left Great Britain. Truthfully, they probably felt helpless when they were on those boats that were crossing the seas and oceans around the globe.

I might have been a chicken shit because I do not want to drown in the middle of an ocean or sea with mighty and hungry creatures looking for an easy and free human body to eat for a meal.

In today’s world, I wonder how many people feel lost and misguided within a total capitalist nation where money is way more important than the Bible, going to a church, or even praying at home for anything because in the end, everyone in America knows that money is the god of this world.

I have studied money, economics, and finance more than most common people, but I have always had a spiritual heart and mind for the spiritual things within the Bible, both before and after my economic learning of money and the world of economics, which by the way, is a cool topic.

People like my sister who is an attorney and a CPA-Accountant who works with more money than I ever did might even go to church whenever she needs to. But she probably does not read or study the Bible. Why? There is only so much time in the day, week, month, and year to do anything.

Even I, the great and all-wise George, give out advice to young people and teenagers whenever I have the chance. “Get great grades. Reading, writing, and mathematics are the most important things you have to do to get a job and earn money in this world.”

I do it because in the very teeny, tiny town I live in I know that some parents are living within their own very limited mental concept of the world and they do not how and what to advise their children to prepare for their financial future in the world.

I, on the other hand, live in a very huge and dynamic mental concept of the world so I am to instruct younger people who need advice about how to succeed in this world.

I never preach the Bible to most people for many reasons. I would not have preached the Bible in the days of the cowboys and Indians either. I would not have preached the Bible in the Roman Empire although of course, there was no big Bible during the Roman Empire.

Nor would I have preached the Bible in the hard-working factories during the Industrial Revolution.

That being stated, it is most definitely true that within the capitalist society of America, the Christian religion and the Bible are the main sources of its national religion.

“What is the most popular religion in America in 2024?

Roughly 48.9% of Americans are Protestants, 23.0% are Catholics, 1.8% are Mormons (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). Christianity was introduced during the period of European colonization. The United States has the world's largest Christian population.” (Taken off the web.)

Side by side they exist!

Christianity and capitalism.

Lately, since I have been thinking and studying about the history of Christianity since the time after Jesus's life and death, I have been seeing and understanding that topic in various ways that I could not have imagined until now.

Mostly because when I was a student of the Bible, I was not studying it as a history book, but rather as a metaphysical and spiritual book.

Now that I have survived stage 4 CLL cancer making me a cancer survivor and a death survivor again, (really this dying thing is a big fat joke) I am more aware of the importance of many topics and issues that were not so important to me before now. In other words, I forgot what was important in the eyes of God, Spirit, which was not money.

As everyone knows, the old world is long gone.

We are all living in a new world.

But in this new world, some things never change, including the Bible, as a metaphysical, and spiritual holy book, as long as you don’t take too much of it literally.

People spend a lot of time working and earning money. They need time for the spiritual Bible too.