"Jesus never said anything close to prosperity theology. He said a rich man entering Heaven would have an easier time after a camel cleared a needle’s eye. He told a wealthy young man who had followed every commandment to sell everything he owned and give it to the poor. The man walked away sad, which is one of the most honest moments in the Gospels.
Paul is easier. Paul gives you structure. Paul tells you how to run a household, how to relate to government authority, how to organize a congregation. Paul is manageable in a way that Jesus frankly isn’t. You can build a denomination on Paul. Building one on the Sermon on the Mount is considerably harder, because the Sermon on the Mount tells you to give to anyone who asks and to stop worrying about tomorrow.
A country built on capital accumulation cannot easily absorb a savior who told people to stop accumulating. So it absorbed his apostle instead and called it the same thing."
~ D. Day
"Capitalism, Socialism, And Christians Who Ignore Jesus"
"The Theological Audit
Capitalism requires scarcity logic. Resources are finite, competition is natural, and the allocation of those resources through markets is efficient. Its highest virtues are productivity, self-reliance, and the freedom to accumulate without ceiling.
The Jesus of the Gospels repeatedly broke scarcity logic for dramatic effect. Loaves multiply. Wine appears from water. Twelve baskets of leftovers remain after five thousand people eat. Whether you read these as historical miracles or theological statements, the point being made is the same: abundance is available. The feast is possible. The problem is never that there isn’t enough — it’s that the wrong people are controlling what there is."
~ Day
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