Predatory Economics and the Christian Response
The context of ancient biblical history can provide modern American Christians indispensable help in navigating the disastrous plight of predatory economics as perpetuated by America and American companies. While politicians and economists traditionally are the only sort of experts that speak on this issue, this essay attempts to set a series of convictions backed by scripture before modern American Christians. This essay is by no means comprehensive and there are a variety of experts cited that have written multiple volumes of exhaustive books on the subject. What this essay does offer is an alternative viewpoint that both the pulpit and the economist often neglect. In the book of Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar has a vision in which he foresees the fate of empires throughout time. Within the dream there is a giant statue made of a variety of materials: gold, then bronze, then cobbled stone. A meteorite falls through the sky and demolishes the entire statue and each of the materi...